Oxford University

AB 's three eldest sisters had attended Oxford and one had become a don, though her two other elder sisters had been kept from university life by poor health. Her family assumed that she would...

JW attended Accrington Girls' Grammar School, then Accrington College of Further Education. Although she first failed the Oxford University entrance exams, she travelled to meet with the authorities and persuaded them to give her a...

After her father's death, her mother moved her to a boarding school at Lausanne in Switzerland, and then to a progressive girls' school, Parsons Mead School in Ashtead, Surrey. Before long Helen had...

At the same time as applying for her place at Newnham, she kept her options open by applying for a lectureship at Sheffield University and a place at Vassar in New York State, as...

The school, which was populated by the daughters of Oxford dons who had recently been allowed to marry and have families, had a feminist atmosphere. The students debated topics like rational dress and women’s education...

KN 's class of degree in her BA in PPE from Oxford University was announced: she was awarded a fourth-class BA (a class which was popularly believed to reflect not lack of ability but rather...

She sat the entrance exams for admission to Oxford , and got as far as being placed on a waiting list. She was rejected after the A-level results came through (although she got two A's...

He was admitted while very young to Oxford University (where he did not, however, take his degree) and later to Lincoln's Inn . He was a law student when he wrote most of his love-poetry...

Ray Costelloe (later RS ) became the first woman to attend lectures on electrical engineering at Oxford .

Naomi Haldane, aged sixteen (later NM ), enrolled as an Oxfordhome student in what later became St Anne's College.

Its working title was Untoward Incidents. It was rejected as obscene by Duckworth before Waugh turned to his father's firm. It is dedicated in Homage and Affection to EW 's Oxford friend and mentor Harold Acton .

After her death, much of MS 's library was presented to the Ladies' College at Hitchin (now Girton College , Cambridge), and in 1879 Somerville College at Oxford University was named after her.Oxford

EB was born into an Englishgentry family. John Fell , Bishop of Oxford (remembered as a scholar and an energetic reformer and upholder of standards at Oxford University and the University Press ), was her...

ML grew up in a liberal, Jewish family of high-level professionals. Her maternal grandfather had been banished from Romania in 1885 and made his new home in England. ML described her childhood religious belief in...

Her father, a Protestant, called Catholicism a good religion for a girl. From domestic activities with her Italian mother and maids in what she terms the basement world of female secrets, she learned about...