Oxford University

JW attended Accrington Girls' Grammar School, then Accrington College of Further Education. Although she first failed the Oxford University entrance exams, she travelled to meet with the authorities and persuaded them to give her a...

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...

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...

The school, which was populated by the daughters of Oxford dons who had recently been allowed to marry and have families, had a feminist atmosphere. The students debated topics like rational dress and women’s education...

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...

Naomi Haldane, aged sixteen (later NM ), enrolled as an Oxfordhome student in what later became St Anne's College.

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...

Ray Costelloe (later RS ) became the first woman to attend lectures on electrical engineering at Oxford .

JAF initially followed in his brother's footsteps at Oxford , joining the Oxford Movement, assisting John Henry Newman with his Lives of the English Saints, and taking orders as a Deacon.

In August 1869 JR was appointed the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University . While in this role he established the Ruskin School of Art , donated and arranged art collections, and...

RP 's first job was playing the viola at Westminster Abbey, for which she was paid five pounds. Later, like many graduate students, she did some teaching at Oxford , and like many...

In May 2009 she was elected the first-ever woman Professor of Poetry at Oxford , but she resigned nine days later after revealing that she had informed a couple of journalists about past sexual harassment...

From 1982 SH held an academic position at Harvard , where he taught for just one semester of the year. Two years into this arrangement Harvard appointed him Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. From...

DW never names the man, a childhood friend who came back from the Great War with a shattered knee, who broke her heart by failing fully to return the passionate love which developed between them...

The Goudge family moved from Ely to Oxford when EG 's father became Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University .