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Education | Sally Purcell | SP
received her Oxford
BA Honours in Medieval and Modern French after her three years at Lady Margaret Hall
. Jay, Peter, and Sally Purcell. “Foreword and Note on the Text”. Collected Poems, edited by Peter Jay and Peter Jay, Anvil Press Poetry, pp. 19-24. 19 |
Education | Cecil Frances Alexander | CFA
was well educated at home with her sisters, while her brothers attended Oxford
. 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. Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press. Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput. 41, 45 |
Education | Ann Bridge | |
Education | Kathleen Nott | KN
's class of degree in her BA in PPE from Oxford University
was announced: she was awarded a fourth-class BA (a class which was popularly believed to reflect not lack of ability but rather... |
Education | Jeanette Winterson | JW
attended Accrington Girls' Grammar School, then Accrington College of Further Education. Although she first failed the Oxford University
entrance exams, she travelled to meet with the authorities and persuaded them to give her a... |
Education | Muriel Jaeger | In her final exams MJ
earned the equivalent of a second-class honours BA in English Language and Literature from Oxford University
, after adding an extra year to the three-year degree course, probably because of... |
Education | Marghanita Laski | As a little girl ML
attended Ladybarn House School
in Manchester, which had been founded in 1873 as a pioneering institution following the educational ideals of Pestalozzi
and Froebel
. This was part of... |
Education | Maude Royden | MR
had two years at Cheltenham Ladies' College
, from which she won a place at Oxford
. Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell. 13 “Agnes Maude Royden Biography”. BookRags.com. Royden, Maude. Sex and Common-Sense. G. P. Putnam’s Sons. prelims |
Education | Elizabeth Jennings | EJ
took her Oxford
BA Honours in English Language and Literature at St Anne's College
. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Education | J. K. Rowling | She sat the entrance exams for admission to Oxford
, and got as far as being placed on a waiting list. She was rejected after the A-level results came through (although she got two A's... |
Education | Marina Warner | MW
received an Oxford
BA in Modern Languages (French and Italian) from Lady Margaret Hall
; following this she received her MA as well. Moseley, Merritt, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 194. Gale Research. 194: 281 |
Education | John Donne | He was admitted while very young to Oxford University
(where he did not, however, take his degree) and later to Lincoln's Inn
. He was a law student when he wrote most of his love-poetry... |
Education | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
attended Clapham County Secondary School until she left at the age of sixteen and a half. Her mother paid fees of five pounds a term until she had to ask to be excused them... |
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. |
Education | Abraham Cowley | He was educated at Westminster School
and Trinity College, Cambridge
. He later studied at Oxford University
for a degree in medicine. Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, et. al., http://SpCol PR 553 J67 1781. 1: 3-6,11 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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1893: Mary Lucy Pendered dedicated her novel of...
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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.
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