Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black.
St Anne's College, Oxford University
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Naomi Mitchison | |
Education | Naomi Mitchison | At the Society of Home Students
there was then little academic supervision and no tutorial system. NM
passed her science prelims, or qualifying exams, in June 1915, but never completed a degree course (degrees... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Naomi Mitchison | In the first year of her marriage, in a little toilet at the Society of Home Students
common-room in Ship Street, Oxford, NM
had one of these very early miscarriages which are so usual... |
Textual Production | Naomi Mitchison | According to her daughter Lois Godfrey
, it appeared in the Journal of Physiology when NM
was sixteen and a member of the Society of Home Students
(later St Anne's College
) at Oxford University
. The Ship. St Anne’s College. 89: 41 |
Textual Production | Naomi Mitchison | NM
gave the title Why Write? to a chapter in You May Well Ask. Her answer was that all skills are pleasurable; that the pleasures of the body get fewer with age, but the... |
Dedications | Iris Murdoch | The dedicatee is Margaret Hubbard
, who like Murdoch was one of St Anne's College
's original Fellows when it achieved collegiate status in 1957. The book was adapted for television in 1975 by Simon Raven
. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins. 531 |
Reception | Iris Murdoch | 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 |
Occupation | Iris Murdoch | IM
returned to Oxford, the city and university of her undergraduate career, as fellow and tutor in philosophy at St Anne's College
. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch: The Saint and the Artist. Macmillan. 14 Todd, Richard. Iris Murdoch. Methuen. 18 |
Occupation | Iris Murdoch | IM
resigned from her fellowship and tutorship at St Anne's College
with effect from this date, at the end of the second term of the year. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins. 457 |
Occupation | Iris Murdoch | Having left St Anne's
with the idea of securing more time for her writing, IM
was a part-time lecturer in philosophy at the Royal College of Art
in London. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins. 469 and n4 Conradi, Peter J. “A Literary Witness to Good and Evil”. Guardian Weekly, Guardian Publications, p. 24. 24 Todd, Richard. Iris Murdoch. Methuen. 18 |
Leisure and Society | Iris Murdoch | The painter Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
did a portrait of IM
in 1964, commissioned by St Anne's College
. Years later Tom Phillips
painted her for the National Portrait Gallery
, posed in front of Titian |
Textual Production | Ali Smith | In the capacity of the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor, AS
delivered four lectures to students of European Comparative Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford
. Considering her stated dislike of lecturing from her days at Strathclyde |
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