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Textual Production Margaret Atwood
This book began as MA 's Clarendon Lectures in English at Oxford .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Family and Intimate relationships Diana Athill
One of DA 's aunts had studied at Oxford , become the family bluestocking, and worked as a hospital almoner in London, but had come home when her father died to look after her perfectly...
Material Conditions of Writing Diana Athill
As a child DA began writing a play in which a cousin was to play the role of the good, blond and slightly insipid princess, while Diana was to be the dark, wicked one.
Athill, Diana. Life Class: The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill. Granta.
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Occupation Matthew Arnold
Educated at Oxford , MA was a school inspector from 1851 to 1886 and remained dedicated to the improvement of the English educational system throughout his life. He began publishing first as a poet, but...
Occupation Matthew Arnold
MA was elected to the Professorship of Poetry at Oxford ; his were the first lectures delivered at the university in English, instead of Latin.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press.
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Occupation Matthew Arnold
MA delivered his final lecture as Professor of Poetry at Oxford ; Culture and its Enemies is now known as the beginning of his important work Culture and Anarchy.
Arnold, Matthew. “Editorial Materials”. Culture and Anarchy, edited by Samuel Lipman, Yale University Press, p. Various pages.
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Occupation Gillian Allnutt
Sheba Feminist Publishers , established in January 1980, is a small independent publisher that champions the work of marginalized UK women. This includes the writing of women who [haven't] been to Oxford or Cambridge ...
Family and Intimate relationships Grant Allen
GA 's first wife, whom he married while he was still an undergraduate at Oxford , died prematurely. He married again the year after her death, and he and his second wife had one son.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Education Cecil Frances Alexander
CFA was well educated at home with her sisters, while her brothers attended Oxford .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press.
She studied French and English language and literature, eventually becoming fluent in French.
Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput.
41, 45
Education Naomi Alderman
The same could not be said of Oxford University , where she achieved a place to study PPE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics). She had little social life at her college, since it would not provide...
Literary Setting Naomi Alderman
The protagonist, James, studied physics at Oxford before embarking on a business career in London and Italy. James is gay, and otherwise unremarkable; the lessons are those that life has taught him since his...
Education Joseph Addison
Joseph attended various schools, including Charterhouse , before going on to Oxford , where he was a member of two successive colleges. He later travelled to France and Italy on a grant from his college...

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