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names Felicia Skene
  • BirthName: Felicia Mary Frances Skene
  • Pseudonyms: A Seven Years' Resident of Greece; Francis Scougal; Erskine Moir; Oxoniensis
    This last name means, in Latin, of Oxford; it was an ironical title, since it.was generally used...
names Barbara Pym
  • BirthName: Barbara Mary Crampton Pym
  • Self-constructed: Sandra
    To reflect the more dashing aspects of her character,
    Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994.
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    BP used the name Sandra at Oxford . Her friend and biographer Hazel Holt suggests that she may...
Occupation Marina Warner
MW began her career as a journalist while at Oxford , editing the University magazine Isis; she then freelanced for many journals and newspapers, including Vogue. She also worked in radio broadcasting from...
Occupation Helen Waddell
After Oxford (where she gave the lectures which launched her scholarly career), HW applied for various academic jobs, which her biographer Monica Blackett considers it lucky she did not get. (Many of these jobs included...
Occupation William Morris
While still at Oxford , WM began writing poetry with great dedication. He eventually published poems, stories, articles, and a single review (of Robert Browning 's Men and Women) in the periodical he produced...
Occupation Ketaki Kushari Dyson
After finishing her BA degree at Oxford , KKD returned to Calcutta to teach at Jadavpur University for one year.
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. “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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Occupation Walter Pater
Some time during the Balliol scandal, Benjamin Jowett gave WP a stern warning, and may have advised him not to apply for university positions. Soon afterwards he was passed over for a university Proctorship. During...
Occupation Mary Augusta Ward
MAW involved herself in the cause of higher education for women at Oxford .
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
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Occupation Eleanor Rathbone
Soon after leaving OxfordER became a Visitor for the Liverpool Central Relief Society , which was linked to the Charity Organization Society (COS): her first formal experience, it seems, in social work.
Pedersen, Susan. Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience. Yale University Press, 2004.
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Stobaugh, Beverly. Women and Parliament, 1918-1970. Exposition Press, 1978.
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Occupation Mary Augusta Ward
With Mrs Augustus Vernon Harcourt , MAW became inaugural secretary of the Somerville Committee which was dedicated to the formation of a women's college at Oxford .
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
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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.
Occupation Mary Augusta Ward
MAW was much later employed (in 1882 and 1888) as an examiner in Spanish for the Taylorian scholarship at Oxford .
Ward, Mary Augusta. A Writer’s Recollections. Harper and Brothers, 1918.
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Occupation Gillian Allnutt
Sheba Feminist Publishers , established in January 1980, is a small independent publisher that champions the work of marginalized UK women. This includes the writing of women who [haven't] been to Oxford or Cambridge ...
Occupation Maude Royden
The year after completing her education at Oxford , MR went to work at the Victoria Women's Settlement in the slums of Liverpool.
Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell, 1989.
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Royden, Maude. Sex and Common-Sense. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1922.
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Occupation Elizabeth Carter
Edward Moore 's periodical The World mooted the extraordinary concept of EC as principal of an Oxford or Cambridge college: this number may be by Hester Mulso Chapone .
The World. R. and J. Dodsley.
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Occupation Maude Royden
Through the Rev. Hudson Shaw 's influence as a lecturer at Oxford University 's Extension Summer School , MR became a lecturer in English literature in the Extension Delegacy programme.
Royden, Maude. A Threefold Cord. Victor Gollancz, Nov. 1947.
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“The Papers of Agnes Maude Royden”. Archives Hub: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.
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.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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