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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 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 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 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 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.
(31 July 1956): 10
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 Matthew Arnold
MA was elected to the Professorship of Poetry at Oxford ; his were the first lectures delivered at the university in English, instead of Latin.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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Occupation Elizabeth Taylor
ET wrote amusingly of the horror of appearing on a television programme about books, filmed at Birmingham: sitting on spindly chairs under dazzling lights with other participants (Angus Wilson , whom she liked...
Occupation Matthew Arnold
MA delivered his final lecture as Professor of Poetry at Oxford ; Culture and its Enemies is now known as the beginning of his important work Culture and Anarchy.
Arnold, Matthew. “Editorial Materials”. Culture and Anarchy, edited by Samuel Lipman, Yale University Press, 1994, p. Various pages.
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Occupation Alice Oswald
AO was elected by a large majority to the 311-year-old Chair of Poetry at Oxford University , as the first woman to hold the position.
Lea, Richard. “Alice Oswald elected Oxford professor of poetry by huge margin”. The Guardian, 21 June 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/21/alice-oswald-elected-oxford-professor-of-poetry-by-huge-margin.
Occupation Matthew Arnold
Educated at Oxford , MA was a school inspector from 1851 to 1886 and remained dedicated to the improvement of the English educational system throughout his life. He began publishing first as a poet, but...
Occupation Emma Marshall
While living first in Exeter and then in Gloucester, EM organized evening lectures for women, a cause into which she threw herself heart and soul.
Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900.
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(In Exeter she also visited the women's penitentiary...
Occupation Algernon Charles Swinburne
He turned down an honorary degree from Oxford and a Civil List pension.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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