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ES 's musical career earned her two honorary Doctorates of Music: from the University of Durham in 1911, and from Oxford in 1926 (the first woman so honoured who was not part of the Oxford...

Despite all this, by the Renaissance enough survived for two leading Italian critics, Longinus and Dionysios of Halikarnassos , each to quote at full length a poem of Sappho 's, which they thereby preserved. Other...

RP was elected (by a vote of all available Oxford University graduates) Oxford's Professor of Poetry, to a Chair created in 1708 and never yet held by a woman. She resigned, however, after nine days.

EB was awarded a CBE in 1948, and received two honorary degrees: from Trinity College , Dublin, in 1949 and from Oxford University in 1956.

KKD feels strongly that the difficulty she has faced in attracting an English-speaking audience and commanding the attention of English-speaking critics is related to her ethnicity and bilingualism. Most of the slender English criticism of...

She received further honorary degrees from Durham (June 1948), Oxford (June 1951), and Sheffield (1955).

Katharine Marion Metcalfe , a recent graduate at Oxford University , did something extraordinary in enquiring of Professor Sir Walter Raleigh whether materials existed for research on MW . Raleigh proposed that Metcalfe should edit Jane Austen instead.

She stood as a candidate for election as Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1968, but was unsuccessful. (Four years later John Betjeman told her that she would have been a better choice for Poet...

CC has been recognised in Britain and the US with several major awards for play writing. As early as 1961, she won the Richard Hillary Memorial Prize at Oxford University . New York productions of...

HM already features in critical surveys of the modern British novel, such as that by Nick Rennison , 2004. A. S. Byatt discusses her (among writers of both sexes including predecessors Elizabeth Bowen and Muriel Spark

He received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University in the same year.

At St John's College, Cambridge , for instance, there flourished an Amanda Ros Club, whose members amused themselves by trying to write in the Amanda style. Another such organisation, the Amanda Ros Society, formed...

UAF 's poetry was broadcast on the BBC 's Woman's Hour and selected for Poems on the Underground. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1987, a CBE in...

NM was made an Honorary Fellow of her old college, St Anne's , Oxford .

Other honours in 1987 included being made a Companion of Literature, and receiving an Honorary DLitt from Oxford University . Cambridge University awarded her a Honorary LittD in 1993. She received Honorary Fellowships from St Anne's College, Oxford