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Textual Production Elspeth Huxley
EH 's collection of books about Africa was bought by the University of California at Santa Barbara . She rejected an offer by Boston University for her papers with a claim to have destroyed all...
Textual Production Mary Augusta Ward
She was one of the first women permitted to use the library; Oxford University was still an all-male institution. The essay was reprinted anonymously the same year in the distinguished university journal The Dark Blue...
Textual Production Vera Brittain
VB 's first novel, The Dark Tide, was published; it drew heavily on her own experiences at post-war Oxford .
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
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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.
Textual Production Vera Brittain
The year after the Oxford women's colleges finally reached fully equal status with the men's, VB published The Women at Oxford , A Fragment of History.
British Book News. British Council.
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Textual Production Cicely Hamilton
CH was a popular lecturer. In February 1914 she spoke at a Women's Inter-College Debate at Oxford to support the motion that the reluctance of the modern woman to marry is a benefit to Society...
Textual Production Elizabeth Elstob
The full title is Some Testimonies of Learned Men, in Favour of the Intended Edition of the Saxon Homilies, concerning the learning of the author of those homilies; and the advantages to be hoped for...
Textual Production Percy Bysshe Shelley
PBS published his pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism, for which on this date he was sent down (i.e. expelled) from Oxford .
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Textual Production Catharine Trotter
This letter (fully titled A Letter to Dr. Holdsworth, occasioned by his Sermon preached before the University of Oxford on Easter-Monday, concerning the resurrection of the same body. In which the passages that concern Mr...
Textual Production Barbara Pym
BP began keeping a diary in 1931. Her papers are archived at the Bodleian Library , Oxford University . (BP took her degree at St Hilda's College .) This material includes unpublished poems, short...
Textual Production Margaret Atwood
This book began as MA 's Clarendon Lectures in English at Oxford .
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.
Textual Production Seamus Heaney
SH gave the first of his lectures as Professor of Poetry at Oxford. It was published the next year by the Clarendon Press as The Redress of Poetry: an Inaugural Lecture delivered before the University of Oxford
Textual Production Doreen Wallace
DW 's first published novel, A Little Learning (titled from Alexander Pope ), satirically depicts both the all-female world of an Oxford women's college and the world beyond the college walls, heterosexual but restrictive for...
Textual Production Marina Warner
The book emerged from the Clarendon Lectures given at Oxford in 2001.
Jays, David. “Forever changes”. The Observer.
Textual Production Rosita Forbes
In her third novel, A Fool's Hell, RF focussed centrally not on her young English Mike Treherne or Leila Grant, but on an Egyptian, Kamel Bey Riddha, who studied with Mike at Oxford University .
“New Books and Reprints. Fiction”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1138, p. 753.
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Textual Production Anne Mozley
AM readied for publication—that is, for practical purposes, edited—a series of the works of her younger brother, J. B. Mozley , Professor of Theology at Oxford . She is remembered as the posthumous editor of...

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1850: Oxford established Honours examination schools...

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1850

Oxford established Honours examination schools in mathematics and science, ending the academic monopoly of the classics.

1854: The Oxford University Reform Act first allowed...

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1854

The Oxford University Reform Act first allowed Jews to matriculate and take degrees.

By 4 March 1854: Northcote and Trevelyan published their Report...

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By 4 March 1854

Northcote and Trevelyan published their Report on the Organization of the Permanent Civil Service.

1 January 1856: The first issue of the Oxford and Cambridge...

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1 January 1856

The first issue of the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine was published; it sold for a shilling.

1860: Oxford University included midwifery in its...

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1860

Oxford University included midwifery in its medical degree.

November 1860: Thomas Hill Green became one of the first...

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November 1860

Thomas Hill Green became one of the first laymen to hold a fellowship at Balliol College .

October 1865: Elizabeth Garrett obtained an apothecary's...

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October 1865

Elizabeth Garrett obtained an apothecary's licence through the Society of Apothecaries : this began her medical career, after her rejection by the Universities of London , Edinburgh , St Andrews , Oxford , and Cambridge .

1870: Oxford University permitted the Delegacy...

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1870

Oxford University permitted the Delegacy of Local Examinations to examine girls in secondary education.

1871: The University Test Act abolished all religious...

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1871

The University Test Act abolished all religious tests (of loyalty to the Church of England ) at both ancient universities in England (Oxford and Cambridge ) for admittance to matriculation, degrees, prizes, and fellowships.

March 1871: The first issue of the Oxford University...

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March 1871

The first issue of the Oxford University literary periodical entitled The Dark Blue was published.

1873: Administrative consternation was caused when...

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1873

Administrative consternation was caused when the top-ranked candidate in the Oxford Senior Local Examination turned out to be a woman, or girl: the seventeen-year-old Annie Rogers . Girls had been eligible to sit these exams...

1875: Oxford University instituted separate examinations...

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1875

Oxford University instituted separate examinations for women at every level.

4 June 1878: Lady Margaret Hall, a women's college at...

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4 June 1878

Lady Margaret Hall , a women's college at Oxford University named after Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby , was founded.

1883: J. S. Burdon Sanderson's election as Professor...

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1883

J. S. Burdon Sanderson 's election as Professor of Physiology at Oxford prompted the most publicized nineteenth-century debate between anti-vivisectionists and the proponents of vivisection as an educational tool for studying medicine.

29 April 1884: Oxford University began admitting women to...

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29 April 1884

Oxford University began admitting women to honours examinations for degrees, although they were still not awarded the actual degree.

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