Brasenose College, Oxford University

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Education John Buchan
After going to school in several different towns as his father was allotted to various parishes, JB went on a scholarship to Glasgow University, where he specialised in classics and was taught by Gilbert Murray
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Augusta Ward
Mary Augusta Arnold married Thomas Humphry Ward, a Fellow of Brasenose who came from a middle-class family.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
56, 43-4
Friends, Associates Walter Pater
From his time at Brasenose WP knew Oscar Browning. In Oxford and London he socialized with Edmund Gosse, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Simeon Solomon, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, A. Mary F. Robinson
Occupation Walter Pater
While at Brasenose, he wrote three anonymous essays for the Westminster Review: Coleridge's Writings, Winckelmann, and The Poetry of William Morris. All three were attacked, says scholar Laurel Brake
Occupation Walter Pater
After graduating with a second-class Oxford degree from Queen's in December 1862, WP returned to London with his sisters. His early attempts to gain a clerical fellowship failed, but in February 1864 he returned to...
Residence Walter Pater
In 1869 Pater moved from Brasenose College and took a house with his sisters at 2 Bradmore Road, Oxford. He developed a wider social circle and began dressing like a dandy.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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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.
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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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