“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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Education | Elizabeth Jennings | |
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/. |
Employer | Seamus Heaney | |
Employer | James Anthony Froude | 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. |
Employer | Ruth Padel | |
Employer | Ruth Padel | 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... |
Employer | John Ruskin | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Josephine Butler | JB
's husband was a university instructor who was ordained in the Anglican church in 1854. During the early years of their marriage he taught geography at Oxford University
. Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research. 190: 66 Jordan, Jane. Josephine Butler. John Murray. 38 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | Ketaki Kushari
married Robert Dyson
, an Englishman and then a graduate student, whom she had met during her own undergraduate studies at Oxford University
. Dyson, Ketaki Kushari. Emails about Ketaki Dyson to Rebecca Blasco. 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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rachel Speght | Procter, however, shared her and her father's theological opinions, and lived in the same part of London. An Oxford
graduate, he published a sermon in 1625, and owned a house at Upminster in Essex... |
Timeline
: An Oxford University women's rowing crew...
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Summer1927
An Oxford University
women's rowing crew beat one from Girton, Cambridge
—not by racing, which was deemed medically dangerous for delicate women, but by a separate, timed test.
14 June 1927: Oxford University passed a statute limiting...
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14 June 1927
Oxford University passed a statute limiting the numbers of women in residence to eight hundred and forty.
December 1927: Nancy Hewins opened the first production...
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December 1927
1934: Oxford University ceased to insist on having...
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1934
Oxford University ceased to insist on having a woman demonstrator and separate laboratory space for women doing human anatomy practicals.
1935: Oxford University opened its Bachelor of...
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1935
Oxford University opened its Bachelor of Divinity and Doctor of Divinity degrees to women.
1939: Cambridge's first professorship bestowed...
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1939
Cambridge
's first professorship bestowed on a woman, the Chair of Archaeology. was achieved by Dorothy Garrod
of Newnham
.
6 December 1947: The Senate of Cambridge University unanimously,...
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6 December 1947
The Senate of Cambridge University unanimously, if belatedly, voted to admit women for the first time as full members.
1948: Agnes Headlam-Morley became the first woman...
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1948
Agnes Headlam-Morley
became the first woman appointed to a full professorship at Oxford
when she took up the Montague Burton Chair of International Relations.
1951: The title of Leslie Allen Paul's memoirs,...
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1951
The title of Leslie Allen Paul
's memoirs, Angry Young Man, provided the term Angry Young Men, applied in newspapers and then by critics to a group of largely working-class, socially rebellious, young...
1952: Oxford University ceased to use a separate...
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1952
Oxford University
ceased to use a separate class-list for women's examination results.
29 July 1954 - 1955: J. R. R. Tolkien, Professor of English Language...
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29 July 1954 - 1955
J. R. R. Tolkien
, Professor of English Language at Oxford University
and already author of a children's book called The Hobbit, 1937, published a 3-volume sequel written for adults: The Lord of the Rings.
1957: Oxford University abolished its quota limiting...
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1957
Oxford University
abolished its quota limiting the numbers of women students.
1960: Following the recommendations of the Anderson...
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1960
Following the recommendations of the Anderson Report, a national scheme operated by Local Education Authorities
supplied grants for all university students, subject to means testing.
1961: Oxford University instituted a scheme for...
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1961
Oxford University
instituted a scheme for redistributing income and capital from richer to poorer colleges.
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