St Anne's College, Oxford University

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

IM returned to Oxford, the city and university of her undergraduate career, as fellow and tutor in philosophy at St Anne's College .

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.

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.

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

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 .

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

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

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...

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...

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 .

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...

SM was given, she says, lots of education in Western Culture at excellent if startlingly dull girls' boarding schools. She then, in 1968, entered St Anne's College, Oxford , a university with ancient pale...

Penelope Low (later PL ) entered St Anne's College , Oxford, from a coaching establishment, to read for her BA degree in modern history.

Having graduated from St Anne's , Penelope Low (later PL ) worked at her first job: as a research assistant to a Fellow of St Antony's College , Oxford.