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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/. |
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 |
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 | |
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 | |
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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