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Publishing Nina Bawden
In NB 's third year at Oxford , John Wain started a new literary magazine, Mandrake, which published her first short story.
Bawden, Nina. In My Own Time: Almost An Autobiography. Virago.
87
Publishing Ketaki Kushari Dyson
While she was studying English at Oxford University in the early 1960s, Ketaki Kushari (later KKD ) began to publish Bengali poems in various Indian literary magazines.
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, pp. 170-85.
174
Her first volume of poetry, Bolkol...
Publishing Philip Larkin
The book went through many stages and revisions before publication: the first draft had been finished in February 1944.
Motion, Andrew. Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life. Faber and Faber.
154
A related draft and stories survive, but no complete manuscript. Larkin wrote that he was...
Reception John Henry Newman
This tract had the result of getting the Tract s banned. Tutors at Oxford wrote to demand the author's resignation, principals of colleges drew up a manifesto against it, and the university's Hebdomadal Board condemned it.
Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
100
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Reception Amanda McKittrick Ros
At St John's College, Cambridge , for instance, there flourished an Amanda Ros Club, whose members amused themselves by trying to write in the Amanda style.
Loudan, Jack, and T. Stanley Mercer. O Rare Amanda!. Chatto and Windus.
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Another such organisation, the Amanda Ros Society, formed...
Reception Mary Wollstonecraft
Katharine Marion Metcalfe , a recent graduate at Oxford University , did something extraordinary in enquiring of Professor Sir Walter Raleigh whether materials existed for research on MW . Raleigh proposed that Metcalfe should edit Jane Austen instead.
Barchas, Janine. “The Lost Books of Austen Studies”. States of the Book. CSECS/SCEDHS annual conference.
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...
Reception Edith Sitwell
She received further honorary degrees from Durham (June 1948), Oxford (June 1951), and Sheffield (1955).
Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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Reception Ruth Padel
RP was elected (by a vote of all available Oxford University graduates) Oxford's Professor of Poetry, to a Chair created in 1708 and never yet held by a woman. She resigned, however, after nine days.
Batty, David. “Ruth Padel elected first female Oxford professor of poetry”. The Guardian.
Wardrop, Murray, and Laura Roberts. “Ruth Padel quits as Oxford University’s Professor of Poetry amid ’sex smear claims’”. Daily Telegraph.
Reception Evelyn Underhill
EU received most of her accolades during her lifetime. In addition to becoming the first woman both to lecture in religion at Oxford and head retreats in the Anglican Church , she was elected a...
Reception Kathleen Raine
She stood as a candidate for election as Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1968, but was unsuccessful. (Four years later John Betjeman told her that she would have been a better choice for Poet...
Reception Mary Somerville
MS outstanding intellectual achievements were memorialised in the foundation after her death of Somerville College as an Oxford University women's college. In 2017 she was honoured with an image (in a fetching bonnet) on the...
Reception U. A. Fanthorpe
UAF 's poetry was broadcast on the BBC 's Woman's Hour and selected for Poems on the Underground. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1987, a CBE in...
Reception Ethel Smyth
ES 's musical career earned her two honorary Doctorates of Music: from the University of Durham in 1911, and from Oxford in 1926 (the first woman so honoured who was not part of the Oxford...
Reception Muriel Spark
MS received an Honorary DLitt from Oxford University .
“Events”. Oxford Today, Vol.
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, No. 1, Blackwell Publishers, p. 2.
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