Bawden, Nina. In My Own Time: Almost An Autobiography. Virago.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Nina Bawden | |
Textual Production | Gertrude Bell | Her historical importance has been recognised by two recent biographies, those of Janet Wallach
, 1996 (Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell, Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia)... |
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... |
Reception | Elizabeth Bowen | EB
was awarded a CBE in 1948, and received two honorary degrees: from Trinity College
, Dublin, in 1949 and from Oxford University
in 1956. Austin, Allan E. Elizabeth Bowen. Twayne. chronology Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf. 222-3, 252 |
Characters | Elizabeth Boyd | A first prologue addresses Pope
, and invokes the ghosts of Shakespeare
(The Wonder, as the Glory of the Land) and Dryden
(Shakespear's Freind) as mentors to EB
's performance in... |
Education | Ann Bridge | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Brilliana, Lady Harley | The letters of this correspondence, even more verbally demonstrative than those to her husband, also teem with good advice about diet, exercise, and learning. When her son arrives at university, BLH
urges him to read... |
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. 182 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 | |
Friends, Associates | Rhoda Broughton | The sisters were in general popular in Oxford society, but Rhoda, although at first she dined regularly at the table of scholar Benjamin Jowett
, “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (29 November 1940): 5 |
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 |
Residence | Rhoda Broughton | The move, undertaken so that RB
might be closer to her publisher, and on the assurance of Matthew Arnold
that they would receive a warm welcome, Wood, Marilyn. Rhoda Broughton: Profile of a Novelist. Paul Watkins. 50 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Burnet | EB
was born into an English gentry 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... |
Education | Richard Francis Burton | He left Oxford
without taking a degree. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company. |
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. 190: 66 Jordan, Jane. Josephine Butler. John Murray. 38 |
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