“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Oxford University
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Education | Muriel Jaeger | In her final exams MJ
earned the equivalent of a second-class honours BA in English Language and Literature from Oxford University
, after adding an extra year to the three-year degree course, probably because of... |
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... |
Education | Elizabeth Jennings | |
Education | Naomi Alderman | The same could not be said of Oxford University
, where she achieved a place to study PPE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics). She had little social life at her college, since it would not provide... |
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, 1947. 40 |
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 | Jennifer Dawson | JD
received her BA in history from Oxford
, after final exams postponed for a year because of a health breakdown. 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, 1990. Whitby, Joy. “In Memory of Jennifer Hinton (Dawson 1949)”. The Ship, Vol. 91 , 2001–2002, pp. 54-5. 54 |
Education | Cecil Frances Alexander | CFA
was well educated at home with her sisters, while her brothers attended Oxford
. 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, 1990. Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press, 1999. Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput, 1995. 41, 45 |
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 | 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 | 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 | Viola Tree | By the end of 1910, VT
had become romantically involved with Alan Parsons
, whom she had met at Brancaster in Norfolk. At the beginning of their courtship, she was still studying music in... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Grant Allen | GA
's first wife, whom he married while he was still an undergraduate at Oxford
, died prematurely. He married again the year after her death, and he and his second wife had one son. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Timeline
: An Oxford University women's rowing crew...
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Summer 1927
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.
Reeves, Marjorie. St. Anne’s College, Oxford. St Anne’s College, 1979.
19
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.
Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
356, 258
Brittain, Vera. The Women at Oxford. George G. Harrap, 1960.
171-2, 236
December 1927: Nancy Hewins opened the first production...
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December 1927
Barker, Paul. “Shakespeare’s Sisters”. The Guardian, 26 June 2004, p. G2: 17.
G2: 17
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.
Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
348
Brittain, Vera. The Women at Oxford. George G. Harrap, 1960.
149, 189
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.
Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
349
Green, Vivian Hubert Howard. A History of Oxford University. Batsford, 1974.
189
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
.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
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.
Barnard, Howard Clive. A History of English Education from 1760. 2nd ed., University of London Press, 1961.
161n1
McWilliams-Tullberg, Rita. Women at Cambridge. Gollancz, 1975.
211
“Fact sheet: Women at Cambridge: A Chronology”. University of Cambridge.
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.
“Women at Oxford”. University of Oxford.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
348
Brittain, Vera. The Women at Oxford. George G. Harrap, 1960.
236
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.
Turner, Jenny. “Reasons for Liking Tolkien”. London Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2001, pp. 15-24.
15-16
1957: Oxford University abolished its quota limiting...
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1957
Oxford University
abolished its quota limiting the numbers of women students.
Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
358
West, Priscilla. “Reminiscences of Seven Decades”. St. Hugh’s: One Hundred Years of Women’s Education in Oxford, edited by Penny Griffin, Macmillan, 1986, pp. 62-243.
159
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.
Mountford, Sir James Frederick. British Universities. Oxford University Press, 1966.
101-2
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.
Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
361
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