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Education J. K. Rowling
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...
Education Marina Warner
MW received an Oxford BA in Modern Languages (French and Italian) from Lady Margaret Hall ; following this she received her MA as well.
Moseley, Merritt, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 194. Gale Research.
194: 281
Education John Donne
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...
Education Pamela Hansford Johnson
PHJ attended Clapham County Secondary School until she left at the age of sixteen and a half. Her mother paid fees of five pounds a term until she had to ask to be excused them...
Education Richard Francis Burton
He left Oxford without taking a degree.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company.
Education Abraham Cowley
He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge . He later studied at Oxford University for a degree in medicine.
Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, et. al., http://SpCol PR 553 J67 1781.
1: 3-6,11
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Among writing in many genres, his pastorals and odes proved particularly...
Education Iris Murdoch
IM took her Honours BA, First Class, in Greats (classics, ancient history, and philosophy) at Somerville College , Oxford.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins.
133
Education Anna Kavan
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...
Education Ketaki Kushari Dyson
KKD worked on her a DPhil in English from Oxford University .
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.
Dyson, Ketaki Kushari. A Various Universe. Oxford University Press, p. xxi; 406 pp.
vii
Dyson, Ketaki Kushari. “Forging a Bilingual Identity: A Writer’s Testimony”. Bilingual Women: Anthropological Approaches to Second Language Use, edited by Pauline Burton et al., Berg, pp. 170-85.
175
Education Ethel Savi
ES was privately educated, never, as she put it, on orthodox lines. At one point she was sent for eighteen months to boarding school in Calcutta—at which, however, she learned nothing.
Savi, Ethel. My Own Story. Hutchinson.
40
She...
Education Iris Murdoch
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...
Education Dorothy L. Sayers
DLS 's parents sent her to Godolphin school (in Salisbury, Wiltshire) in preparation for Oxford .
Reynolds, Barbara. Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul. Hodder and Stoughton.
27, 28, 43
Education Dorothy L. Sayers
She earned first-class Honours, though as a woman she was not yet allowed to take a degree. While at Oxford she met Vera Brittain , who liked her on sight. She dressed flamboyantly and eccentrically...
Education Ray Strachey
Ray Costelloe (later RS ) became the first woman to attend lectures on electrical engineering at Oxford .
Strachey, Barbara. Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women. Universe Books.
249-50
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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March 1885: The annual Oxford and Cambridge boat race...

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March 1885

The annual Oxford and Cambridge boat race was completely overshadowed by the sensational antics of an American advertising company.

1889: Cornelia Sorabji, the first woman law student...

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1889

Cornelia Sorabji , the first woman law student at a British university, enrolled at Somerville College , Oxford .

1893: Mary Lucy Pendered dedicated her novel of...

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1893

Mary Lucy Pendered dedicated her novel of two friends and their eventual disappointment with their husbands, Dust and Laurels: A Study in Nineteenth Century Womanhood, To that Hybrid Complication, the Woman of To-day.

12 October 1897: Nearly four years after the appearance of...

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12 October 1897

Nearly four years after the appearance of the first fascicle (A-ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary, a great dinner was held at Queen's College, Oxford , for its volunteer readers, including women.

26 March 1902: Cecil Rhodes died, leaving a trust producing...

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26 March 1902

Cecil Rhodes died, leaving a trust producing nearly £52,000 per annum to fund fifty-two (at first) graduate scholarships each year to Oxford . They were not, under the terms of his will, open to women...

1904: Sir Walter Raleigh, author of the literary...

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1904

Sir Walter Raleigh , author of the literary historyThe English Novel, 1894, moved from Glasgow to become the first Professor of English Literature at Oxford .

1912: Lilian Baylis began her tenure as manager...

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1912

Lilian Baylis began her tenure as manager of the Old Vic Theatre in London, which she converted from a music hall into a respected Shakespearian theatre.

1915: Principals of the women's colleges of Oxford...

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1915

Principals of the women's colleges of Oxford University agreed to allow the formation of mixed societies.

1917: Oxford University opened its medical examinations...

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1917

Oxford University opened its medical examinations to women.

1918: Oxford University opened its postgraduate...

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1918

Oxford University opened its postgraduate Bachelor of Civil Law examination to women; this was one of the changes introduced because the First World War shifted opinion towards assimilation of women in educational institutions.

17 February 1920: Oxford University admitted women as full...

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17 February 1920

Oxford University admitted women as full members.

7 October 1920: At the beginning of Oxford University's academic...

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7 October 1920

At the beginning of Oxford University 's academic year, the women's statute came into effect: women were finally eligible to become Senior Members of the University.

14 October 1920: A week after the university statutes had...

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14 October 1920

A week after the university statutes had finally made women eligible for degrees, women graduates of Oxford gathered for the belated award of degrees which they had earned, most of them, years before.

11 March 1921: Oxford University awarded its first honorary...

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11 March 1921

Oxford University awarded its first honorary degree to a woman, Queen Mary .

June 1925: Annie Jump Cannon, distinguished US astronomer,...

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June 1925

Annie Jump Cannon , distinguished US astronomer, became the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from Oxford University .

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