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Reception A. S. Byatt
ASB is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and received an honorary D.Litt. from Oxford University on 20 June 2007.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
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“Encaenia”. Oxford Today, Vol.
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, No. 1, p. 11.
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Her official website, www.asbyatt.com/, including comment and a detailed bibliography, became...
Family and Intimate relationships Catherine Byron
At nineteen, while she was still an undergraduate at Oxford , Catherine Greenfield (later CB ) married Ken Byron , who was then a history student.
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.
Byron, Catherine. “The Most Difficult Door”. Women’s Lives into Print, edited by Pauline Polkey, Macmillan, pp. 185-96.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Joanna Cannan
The frontispiece depicts Oxford, and the university occupies a prominent position in the book (though JC writes fondly, too, of villages like Peppard Common where she herself lived). Her second sentence proclaims: We who live...
Birth May Cannan
She thus records her entry into the all-male institution of Oxford University in the nineteenth century. She goes on: There was already an elder sister and it had been a son that had been hoped...
Textual Features Joanna Cannan
High Table is an Oxford University novel, whose protagonist, Theodore Fletcher, grows up a child in a loveless family and feels a sudden, blank dreariness which . . . swamped his mind, when, lying awake...
Family and Intimate relationships Dora Carrington
Carrington knew Rex Partridge by mid 1918; he was a friend of Noel Carrington at Oxford University , and was introduced to her by John Hope Johnstone .
Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press.
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Partridge soon began to spend much...
Education Catherine Carswell
CC attended the Glasgow School of Art. On her return from Frankfurt she studied English Literature at Queen Margaret's College , the women's college which for nearly a decade had been part of Glasgow University
Occupation Elizabeth Carter
Edward Moore 's periodical The World mooted the extraordinary concept of EC as principal of an Oxford or Cambridge college: this number may be by Hester Mulso Chapone .
The World. R. and J. Dodsley.
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Cultural formation Barbara Cartland
BC , English on both sides, claimed to be able to trace her paternal lineage to the fifteenth century and her maternal one to the eleventh. Her biographer, Tim Heald , however, points that her...
Performance of text Caryl Churchill
Two full-length plays also had student productions at Oxford : Having a Wonderful Time (Questors Theatre , 1960), and Easy Death (Oxford Playhouse , 1961). Easy Death brought Churchill to the attention of...
Reception Caryl Churchill
CC has been recognised in Britain and the US with several major awards for play writing. As early as 1961, she won the Richard Hillary Memorial Prize at Oxford University . New York productions of...
Family and Intimate relationships Cassandra Cooke
CC 's elder son, Theophilus, was born in 1776. His mother was trying in 1799, after his graduation, to get him a parish, and in 1802 to get him a better one. Her younger son...
Characters Lettice Cooper
The story is set in a town called Aire, which has been variously identified as Leeds and Sheffield. It depicts the socialist movement at a moment of transition: the rich industrialist Marsdens, the old-money...
Occupation William John Courthope
WJC became Professor of Poetry at Oxford and was responsible for finishing an important edition of Alexander Pope which had been begun by Whitwell Elwin . As an editor he tended to read Pope's later...
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.
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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...

Timeline

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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