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Textual Production Elizabeth Tollet
Her other brother, already at Oxford , was apparently not a very diligent student.
Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University.
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Textual Production Elspeth Huxley
They had begun planning such a book after meeting at a Colonial Conference in summer 1941, at Oxford , where Perham was Reader in Colonial Administration. Lord Lugard supplied an introduction.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins.
166, 168
Faber and Faber
Textual Production Emma Robinson
It was submitted to the Chamberlain as the work of a a young Oxonian: another young male identity, since women could not attend university any more than they could train for the army. The...
Textual Production Evelyn Waugh
Waugh had begun keeping a diary as an adolescent, but he evidently destroyed those parts that covered his years at Oxford . Also missing from the extant diary are any account of the end of...
Textual Production Vera Brittain
VB 's first novel, The Dark Tide, was published; it drew heavily on her own experiences at post-war Oxford .
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
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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.
Textual Production Elspeth Huxley
EH 's collection of books about Africa was bought by the University of California at Santa Barbara . She rejected an offer by Boston University for her papers with a claim to have destroyed all...
Textual Production Mary Augusta Ward
She was one of the first women permitted to use the library; Oxford University was still an all-male institution. The essay was reprinted anonymously the same year in the distinguished university journal The Dark Blue...
Textual Production Vera Brittain
The year after the Oxford women's colleges finally reached fully equal status with the men's, VB published The Women at Oxford , A Fragment of History.
British Book News. British Council.
(1960): 243
Textual Production Cicely Hamilton
CH was a popular lecturer. In February 1914 she spoke at a Women's Inter-College Debate at Oxford to support the motion that the reluctance of the modern woman to marry is a benefit to Society...
Textual Production Elizabeth Elstob
The full title is Some Testimonies of Learned Men, in Favour of the Intended Edition of the Saxon Homilies, concerning the learning of the author of those homilies; and the advantages to be hoped for...
Textual Production Percy Bysshe Shelley
PBS published his pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism, for which on this date he was sent down (i.e. expelled) from Oxford .
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Textual Production Catharine Trotter
This letter (fully titled A Letter to Dr. Holdsworth, occasioned by his Sermon preached before the University of Oxford on Easter-Monday, concerning the resurrection of the same body. In which the passages that concern Mr...
Textual Features Elizabeth Elstob
Her letter, addressed to her prebendary uncle, Charles Elstob , mentions her deference to his judgement, and the favour she has received from both Oxford and Cambridge Universities . Female modesty, she says, prevents her...
Textual Features Q. D. Leavis
QDL 's review constitutes a personal and professional attack on Woolf, based primarily on three fronts: education, domesticity, and class. A footnote asserts that Woolf commenting on women's institutional education is voicing an opinion on...
Textual Features Beatrice Harraden
They wanted, they said, to build up and develop in the very heart of the British Empire the opportunities offered to all women students of all nations.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(29 March 1906): 8
Apparently they were thinking...

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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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