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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
EJ took her Oxford BA Honours in English Language and Literature at St Anne's College .
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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.
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She...
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.
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, 2001–2002, pp. 54-5.
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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.
She studied French and English language and literature, eventually becoming fluent in French.
Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput, 1995.
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Employer Ruth Padel
RP 's first job was playing the viola at Westminster Abbey, for which she was paid five pounds.
Ruth Padel. http://web.archive.org/web/20090507090438/http://www.ruthpadel.com/index.htm.
website
Later, like many graduate students, she did some teaching at Oxford , and like many...
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
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...
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.
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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.
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Brittain, Vera. The Women at Oxford. George G. Harrap, 1960.
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December 1927: Nancy Hewins opened the first production...

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December 1927

Nancy Hewins opened the first production by her touring Osiris Players , Britain's first professional all-female theatre company (successor to the amateur Isis Players , which she had run as an Oxford undergraduate).
Barker, Paul. “Shakespeare’s Sisters”. The Guardian, 26 June 2004, p. G2: 17.
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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.
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Brittain, Vera. The Women at Oxford. George G. Harrap, 1960.
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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.
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Green, Vivian Hubert Howard. A History of Oxford University. Batsford, 1974.
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2 April 1938: The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race was televised...

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2 April 1938

The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race was televised for the first time on the BBC .
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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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.
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McWilliams-Tullberg, Rita. Women at Cambridge. Gollancz, 1975.
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“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.
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Brittain, Vera. The Women at Oxford. George G. Harrap, 1960.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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