All Souls College, Oxford University

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Birth Carola Oman
She was christened in the chapel of All Souls College , in the largest available punch-bowl.
Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Employer Marina Warner
In 1994 MW took a position teaching creative writing in the department of literature, film and theatre studies at the University of Essex . This was a new experience for her, though she had already...
Family and Intimate relationships Caroline Blackwood
Having obtained a divorce in Santo Domingo, CB married the US poet Robert Lowell , whom she had met (as husband of Elizabeth Hardwick ) in 1966; their affair began while he was a...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Freke
EF 's father, Ralph Freke of Hannington in Wiltshire, a lawyer and previously a Fellow of All Souls College , Oxford, was fifty at his marriage. When Elizabeth married against his wishes he...
Family and Intimate relationships Frances, Lady Norton
FLN 's father, Ralph Freke of Hannington in Wiltshire, a lawyer and previously a Fellow of All Souls' College , Oxford, was fifty at his marriage. He died on 24 April 1684.
Freke, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Remembrances of Elizabeth Freke, 1671-1714, edited by Raymond A. Anselment, Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society, pp. 1-36.
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Family and Intimate relationships Carola Oman
CO 's father, Charles Oman , said that his early life had been most unhappy.
Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton.
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He had been a poverty-stricken student, then a Fellow of All Souls.
Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton.
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He became librarian of the...
Occupation John Norris
He became a Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford , and later, after he married, a country clergyman.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Reception Marina Warner
She was taken aback when she was invited to a dinner at All Souls College , Oxford, and her professorship at Rotterdam was contemptuously dismissed by an ex-diplomat also present. To her, the incident was...
Reception Marina Warner
Subsequently, Warner has been a Visiting Fellow at the British Film Institute (1992), Trinity College, Cambridge (1998), the Humanities Research Centre, Warwick University (1999), Stanford University (2000), and All Souls College , Oxford (2001). She...
Textual Features Margaret Oliphant
Carlingford was the first English setting in MO 's fiction, apart from London. In inventing it she was following the precedent of Trollope 's Barsetshire.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
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In The Rector the protagonist comes to Carlingford from...

Timeline

1438: All Souls College, Oxford, was founded by...

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1438

All Souls College , Oxford, was founded by Henry VI and Henry Chichele , Archbishop of Canterbury, dedicated to those so far slain in the Hundred Years War with France; its official title was...

Before 1638: William Page, Fellow of All Souls College,...

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Before 1638

William Page , Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford , created a proto-feminist text entitled Womens Worth: A Treatise proveing by sundrie reasons that woemen do excell men.

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