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Reception Muriel Spark
MS received an Honorary DLitt from Oxford University .
“Events”. Oxford Today, Vol.
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, No. 1, Blackwell Publishers, 1999, p. 2.
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Reception Marina Warner
Subsequently, Warner has been a Visiting Fellow at the British Film Institute (1992), Trinity College, Cambridge (1998), the Humanities Research Centre, Warwick University (1999), Stanford University (2000), and All Souls College , Oxford (2001). She...
Reception Evelyn Underhill
EU received most of her accolades during her lifetime. In addition to becoming the first woman both to lecture in religion at Oxford and head retreats in the Anglican Church , she was elected a...
Reception Mary Somerville
MS outstanding intellectual achievements were memorialised in the foundation after her death of Somerville College as an Oxford University women's college. In 2017 she was honoured with an image (in a fetching bonnet) on the...
Reception Sappho
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...
Reception Ethel Smyth
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...
Reception Elizabeth Bowen
EB was awarded a CBE in 1948, and received two honorary degrees: from Trinity College , Dublin, in 1949 and from Oxford University in 1956.
Austin, Allan E. Elizabeth Bowen. Revised, Twayne, 1989.
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Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.
222-3, 252
Reception Ruth Padel
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.
Batty, David. “Ruth Padel elected first female Oxford professor of poetry”. The Guardian, 17 May 2009.
Wardrop, Murray, and Laura Roberts. “Ruth Padel quits as Oxford University’s Professor of Poetry amid ’sex smear claims’”. Daily Telegraph, 25 June 2009.
Reception Mary Wollstonecraft
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.
Barchas, Janine. “The Lost Books of Austen Studies”. States of the Book. CSECS/SCEDHS annual conference, 17 Oct. 2015.
Reception Ketaki Kushari Dyson
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...
Reception Edith Sitwell
She received further honorary degrees from Durham (June 1948), Oxford (June 1951), and Sheffield (1955).
Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981.
267-8, 293-4, 315-16
Reception Kathleen Raine
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...
Reception Caryl Churchill
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...
Reception Hilary Mantel
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
Reception Amanda McKittrick Ros
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.
Loudan, Jack, and T. Stanley Mercer. O Rare Amanda!. 2nd ed., Chatto and Windus, 1969.
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Another such organisation, the Amanda Ros Society, formed...

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