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HM already features in critical surveys of the modern British novel, such as that by Nick Rennison , 2004. A. S. Byatt discusses her (among writers of both sexes including predecessors Elizabeth Bowen and Muriel Spark

He received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University in the same year.

EB was awarded a CBE in 1948, and received two honorary degrees: from Trinity College , Dublin, in 1949 and from Oxford University in 1956.

Other honours in 1987 included being made a Companion of Literature, and receiving an Honorary DLitt from Oxford University . Cambridge University awarded her a Honorary LittD in 1993. She received Honorary Fellowships from St Anne's College, Oxford

KKD feels strongly that the difficulty she has faced in attracting an English-speaking audience and commanding the attention of English-speaking critics is related to her ethnicity and bilingualism. Most of the slender English criticism of...

NM was made an Honorary Fellow of her old college, St Anne's , Oxford .

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.

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. Another such organisation, the Amanda Ros Society, formed...

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.

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...

After graduating from Oxford , BP lived at home with her parents in Oswestry, not seeking paid work but principally occupied by her writing.

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, was to provide them with a home for...

QDL 's review constitutes a personal and professional attack on Woolf, based primarily on three fronts: education, domesticity, and class. A footnote asserts that Woolf commenting on women's institutional education is voicing an opinion on...

Her letter, addressed to her prebendary uncle, Charles Elstob , mentions her deference to his judgement, and the favour she has received from both Oxford and Cambridge Universities . Female modesty, she says, prevents her...

They wanted, they said, to build up and develop in the very heart of the British Empire the opportunities offered to all women students of all nations. Apparently they were thinking...