Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage. http://www.thepeerage.com/.
New College, Oxford University
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Alice Oswald | AO took her BA in Classics at New College, Oxford
(her father's old college, which is even more renowned than her mother's for its gardens). After this she went on to study gardening or horticulture. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Sewell | James Edwards Sewell
(1810-1903) became an academic. He served as Warden of New College, Oxford
, and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University
. Sewell, Elizabeth. The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell. Editor Sewell, Eleanor L., Longmans, Green, 1907. xi The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols. |
| Friends, Associates | Matilda Betham-Edwards | MBE
set a great deal of store by meeting men distinguished as authors or in other fields, as a spur to literary achievement of her own. She was given to boasting of her acquaintance with... |
| Literary Setting | Beatrice Harraden | The stories, not arranged chronologically, cover periods from the ancient Greeks and Romans through the middle ages. Named characters include William of Wykeham
(founder of Winchester College
and of New College, Oxford
), the pioneer... |
Timeline
8 June 1884: John William Burgon preached at New College,...
Building item
8 June 1884
John William Burgon
preached at New College, Oxford
, a sermon against the higher education of women as a reversal of the law of nature. Printed this year, the sermon became notorious.
Reeves, Marjorie. St. Anne’s College, Oxford. St Anne’s College, 1979.
4 and n1
October 1974: The first women students were admitted to...
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October 1974
The first women students were admitted to formerly all-male colleges of Oxford University: Brasenose
, Hertford
, St Catherine's
, Jesus
, and Wadham
.
Hitch, Susan. “Women”. The Oxford Myth, edited by Rachel Johnson, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988.
87-8
Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
374
Thomas, Keith. “College Life, 1945-1970”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Vol.
viii
, Clarendon Press, 1994, pp. 189-15. 210
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