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Family and Intimate relationships Julia Constance Fletcher
JCF's uncle Solomon Caesar Malan was an orientalist scholar, master of a dozen languages including Tibetan. He married an Englishwoman and became anglicized: a graduate of Oxford University (to which he left his remarkable library)...
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.
188
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.
152, 222, 293-4
Family and Intimate relationships Carola Oman
CO 's father, Charles Oman , said that his early life had been most unhappy.
Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton, 1976.
35
He had been a poverty-stricken student, then a Fellow of All Souls.
Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton, 1976.
38-9
He became librarian of the...
Family and Intimate relationships L. E. L.
LEL's brother was Whittington Henry Landon . The profits from her writing contributed to his university education at Oxford .
Stephenson, Glennis. Letitia Landon: The Woman Behind L.E.L. Manchester University Press, 1995.
22, 33
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Mozley
AM 's brother Thomas Mozley (three years older than Anne and the first of three brothers in the family to attend Oxford University )
Foster, Joseph. Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886. Foster, 1887.
became a clergyman, religious controversialist, and journalist. He was a vital...
Family and Intimate relationships Antonia Fraser
AF 's father, born Francis Aungier (Frank) Pakenham, was an Oxford academic whose subject was politics. He became the seventh Earl of Longford in 1961, but he had already been made Baron Pakenham by Clement Attlee
Family and Intimate relationships Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
RPJ 's brother, Siegbert Salomon Prawer , is two years older. While Ruth quickly began writing in English and rarely deals with German topics, her brother read German at Cambridge and embarked on an academic...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Clinton Countess of Lincoln
Elizabeth Knyvett married Thomas Clinton, Earl of Lincoln , an Oxford graduate; if her generally accepted birth-date is accurate, she was legally married as a child.
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.
7: 695
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships Christabel Pankhurst
She was very fond of Betty as a little girl,
qtd. in
Pankhurst, Richard Keir Pethick. “Sylvia Pankhurst’s Last Words on Christabel: an unpublished letter of February 1958”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
14
, No. 3/4, pp. 467-9.
469
and took the child with her to Canada when she went there in 1921. In Betty's early years she was mainly raised by a...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Mozley
AM 's brother James Bowling Mozley (four years younger than she was) became a clergyman, a well-known preacher, and the Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford . He was a shy man who relied on...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Frances Billington
MFB 's father was the Reverend George Henry Billington , who served as rector of Chalbury from 1861 to 1904. He was an antiquarian who corresponded with Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers and contributed to...
Family and Intimate relationships Dora Carrington
Carrington knew Rex Partridge by mid 1918; he was a friend of Noel Carrington at Oxford University , and was introduced to her by John Hope Johnstone .
Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press, 1994.
138
Partridge soon began to spend much...
Family and Intimate relationships Edith Lyttelton
During play he was hit by a ball which may have been partly responsible for his sudden illness. On the day of his funeral, play was suspended for a few minutes in his honour during...
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...

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