Oxford University

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Education Dorothy L. Sayers
DLS 's parents sent her to Godolphin school (in Salisbury, Wiltshire) in preparation for Oxford .
Reynolds, Barbara. Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul. Hodder and Stoughton, 1993.
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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, 1998.
194: 281
Education Sally Purcell
SP received her Oxford BA Honours in Medieval and Modern French after her three years at Lady Margaret Hall .
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.
Jay, Peter, and Sally Purcell. “Foreword and Note on the Text”. Collected Poems, edited by Peter Jay and Peter Jay, Anvil Press Poetry, 2002, pp. 19-24.
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Education Kathleen Nott
KN 's class of degree in her BA in PPE from Oxford University was announced: she was awarded a fourth-class BA (a class which was popularly believed to reflect not lack of ability but rather...
Education Dorothy L. Sayers
She earned first-class Honours, though as a woman she was not yet allowed to take a degree. While at Oxford she met Vera Brittain , who liked her on sight. She dressed flamboyantly and eccentrically...
Education Adrienne Rich
AR won a Guggenheim fellowship, which enabled her to study at Oxford and travel through Italy.
Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications, 1999–2002, 17 vols.
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Education Marghanita Laski
As a little girl ML attended Ladybarn House School in Manchester, which had been founded in 1873 as a pioneering institution following the educational ideals of Pestalozzi and Froebel . This was part of...
Education Ketaki Kushari Dyson
KKD worked on her a DPhil in English from Oxford University .
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.
Dyson, Ketaki Kushari. A Various Universe. Oxford University Press, 2002, p. xxi; 406 pp.
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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, 1994, pp. 170-85.
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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...
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
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...
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, 1990.
Byron, Catherine. “The Most Difficult Door”. Women’s Lives into Print, edited by Pauline Polkey, Macmillan, 1999, pp. 185-96.
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Family and Intimate relationships Q. D. Leavis
In July 1954, Ralph, after taking a First at Oxford in musicology, quarrelled with QDL over his future plans and they became permanently estranged.
MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane, 1995.
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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.
356, 258
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.
348
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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