Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Oxford University
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Material Conditions of Writing | Rhoda Broughton | In Belinda, RB
is believed to have drawn extensively from her own early negative experience of the closed world of Oxford
society. It was in particular believed that she caricatured college head Mark Pattison |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Burnet | EB
was born into an Englishgentry family. John Fell
, Bishop of Oxford (remembered as a scholar and an energetic reformer and upholder of standards at Oxford University
and the University Press
), was her... |
| Education | Richard Francis Burton | He left Oxford
without taking a degree. Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company, 1996. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Josephine Butler | JB
's husband was a university instructor who was ordained in the Anglican church in 1854. During the early years of their marriage he taught geography at Oxford University
. Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research, 1998. 190: 66 Jordan, Jane. Josephine Butler. John Murray, 2001. 38 |
| Reception | A. S. Byatt | ASB
is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and received an honorary D.Litt. from Oxford University
on 20 June 2007. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2025, Numerous volumes. 50 “Encaenia”. Oxford Today, Vol. 20 , No. 1, 2007, p. 11. 11 |
| 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 |
| Textual Features | Joanna Cannan | High Table is an Oxford University
novel, whose protagonist, Theodore Fletcher, grows up a child in a loveless family and feels a sudden, blank dreariness which . . . swamped his mind, when, lying awake... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Joanna Cannan | The frontispiece depicts Oxford, and the university occupies a prominent position in the book (though JC
writes fondly, too, of villages like Peppard Common where she herself lived). Her second sentence proclaims: We who live... |
| Birth | May Cannan | She thus records her entry into the all-male institution of Oxford University
in the nineteenth century. She goes on: There was already an elder sister and it had been a son that had been hoped... |
| 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 |
| Education | Catherine Carswell | CC
attended the Glasgow School of Art. On her return from Frankfurt she studied English Literature at Queen Margaret's College
, the women's college which for nearly a decade had been part of Glasgow University |
| 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. 131: 790 |
| Cultural formation | Barbara Cartland | |
| Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | Two full-length plays also had student productions at Oxford
: Having a Wonderful Time (Questors Theatre
, 1960), and Easy Death (Oxford Playhouse
, 1961). Easy Death brought Churchill to the attention of... |
| Reception | Caryl Churchill | CC
has been recognised in Britain and the US with several major awards for play writing. As early as 1961, she won the Richard Hillary Memorial Prize at Oxford University
. New York productions of... |
Timeline
March 1885: The annual Oxford and Cambridge boat race...
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1889: Cornelia Sorabji, the first woman law student...
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1889
Cornelia Sorabji
, the first woman law student at a British university, enrolled at Somerville College
, Oxford
.
Midgley, Clare. “Ethnicity, ‘Race’ and Empire”. Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945, edited by June Purvis, St Martin’s Press, 1995, pp. 247-76.
260
1893: Mary Lucy Pendered dedicated her novel of...
Women writers item
1893
Mary Lucy Pendered
dedicated her novel of two friends and their eventual disappointment with their husbands, Dust and Laurels: A Study in Nineteenth Century Womanhood, To that Hybrid Complication, the Woman of To-day.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
12 October 1897: Nearly four years after the appearance of...
Writing climate item
12 October 1897
Nearly four years after the appearance of the first fascicle (A-ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary, a great dinner was held at Queen's College, Oxford
, for its volunteer readers, including women.
Winchester, Simon. The Professor and the Madman. HarperCollins, 1998.
163-4, 147
26 March 1902: Cecil Rhodes died, leaving a trust producing...
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26 March 1902
Cecil Rhodes
died, leaving a trust producing nearly £52,000 per annum to fund fifty-two (at first) graduate scholarships each year to Oxford
. They were not, under the terms of his will, open to women...
1904: Sir Walter Raleigh, author of the literary...
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1904
Sir Walter Raleigh
, author of the literary history The English Novel, 1894, moved from Glasgow
to become the first Professor of English Literature at Oxford
.
Warner, William Beatty. Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750. University of California Press, 1998.
29
1912: Lilian Baylis began her tenure as manager...
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1912
Lilian Baylis
began her tenure as manager of the Old Vic
Theatre in London, which she converted from a music hall into a respected Shakespearian theatre.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
347
Hartnoll, Phyllis, editor. The Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 4th ed., Oxford University Press, 1983.
64, 608
1915: Principals of the women's colleges of Oxford...
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1915
Principals of the women's colleges of Oxford University
agreed to allow the formation of mixed societies.
Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
361
1917: Oxford University opened its medical examinations...
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1917
Oxford University
opened its medical examinations to women.
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.
149
1918: Oxford University opened its postgraduate...
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1918
Oxford University
opened its postgraduate Bachelor of Civil Law examination to women; this was one of the changes introduced because the First World War shifted opinion towards assimilation of women in educational institutions.
Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
349
17 February 1920: Oxford University admitted women as full...
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17 February 1920
Oxford University
admitted women as full members.
Brittain, Vera. The Women at Oxford. George G. Harrap, 1960.
152
Winter, J. M. “Oxford and the First World War”. The History of the University of Oxford Vol. VIII: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 3-26.
14
7 October 1920: At the beginning of Oxford University's academic...
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7 October 1920
At the beginning of Oxford University
's academic year, the women's statute came into effect: women were finally eligible to become Senior Members of the University.
Brittain, Vera. The Women at Oxford. George G. Harrap, 1960.
152
Winter, J. M. “Oxford and the First World War”. The History of the University of Oxford Vol. VIII: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 3-26.
14
Reeves, Marjorie. St. Anne’s College, Oxford. St Anne’s College, 1979.
10 and n4
14 October 1920: A week after the university statutes had...
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14 October 1920
A week after the university statutes had finally made women eligible for degrees, women graduates of Oxford
gathered for the belated award of degrees which they had earned, most of them, years before.
11 March 1921: Oxford University awarded its first honorary...
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11 March 1921
Oxford University
awarded its first honorary degree to a woman, Queen Mary
.
Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
360
Brittain, Vera. The Women at Oxford. George G. Harrap, 1960.
157
June 1925: Annie Jump Cannon, distinguished US astronomer,...
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June 1925
Annie Jump Cannon
, distinguished US astronomer, became the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from Oxford University
.
Powell, Jennifer H. “Reaching for the Stars”. The Harvard University Gazette, 19 Mar. 1998.
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