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Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
QDL published her first major work of literary criticism: Fiction and the Reading Public, a slightly revised version of her recent Cambridge dissertation, Fiction and the Reading Public: A Study in Social Anthropology.
MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane.
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Textual Production E. M. Forster
EMF published his best-known work of literary criticism, Aspects of the Novel, based on the Clark Lectures which he had delivered at Cambridge .
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Kirkpatrick, Brownlee Jean. A Bibliography of E. M. Forster. Clarendon.
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Textual Production Katherine Parr
KP wrote a letter to the Fellows of Cambridge University , urging them to use our vulgar tonge.
Martienssen, Anthony. Queen Katherine Parr. McGraw-Hill.
206
Textual Production T. S. Eliot
TSE 's The Idea of a Christian Society incorporated the text of three papers delivered at Cambridge University in March.
Gallup, Donald Clifford. T.S. Eliot: A Bibliography. Harcourt, Brace.
67
Textual Production Gertrude Stein
Edith Sitwell had hosted a tea for GS when she came to lecture at Cambridge and Oxford earlier that year; in attendance were Leonard and Virginia Woolf .
Wagner-Martin, Linda. Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family. Rutgers University Press.
184
They had written on 11 June...
Textual Production Germaine Greer
In 2013 GG sold her archives (student notes and essays, scripts for the CambridgeFootlights Society , literary and scholarly manuscripts, diaries, a handmade book designed for her friend Gay Clifford , and professional and...
Textual Production Ann Jebb
The reform that would introduce annual exams at Cambridge University was already AJ 's subject as well as her husband's: she had addressed it in the Whitehall Evening Post. The pamphlet generally ascribed to...
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
This suggests that QDL had some part in F. R. Leavis's domination of the teaching of English at Cambridge (through ideas linked to the schools of Practical Criticism and New Criticism), with his published works...
Textual Production Anita Brookner
This originated as a series of lectures for the Courtauld Institute , developed into six of AB 's Slade Lectures at Cambridge , and thence into a monograph. The title came from Zola.
McNay, Michael. “Anita Brookner obituary”. theguardian.com.
Since...
Textual Production Ann Jellicoe
AJ published Some Unconscious Influences in the Theatre, a booklet of criticism based on the annual Judith Wilson Lecture she gave at Cambridge University the same year.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1976
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Dix, Carol. “Ann Jellicoe (interview)”. The Guardian, p. 10.
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Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
As co-editor, contributor (of nearly fifty pieces), and administrator, QDL was one of the dominant forces behind Scrutiny, the literary journal founded by her husband , herself, and their students, and based at Cambridge
Textual Production Iris Murdoch
IM published her novel An Accidental Man, which features both political and personal moral dilemmas, and is dedicated to her Cambridge philosopher friend Kreisel .
Fletcher, John, and Cheryl Bove. Iris Murdoch: A Descriptive Primary and Annotated Secondary Bibliography. Garland Publishing.
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Halio, Jay L., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 14. Gale Research.
14: 557
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins.
265
Textual Production Elizabeth Jenkins
This character (considerably altered in transplanting) was not the novel's only ingredient from life. Its central episode was suggested by the trial for manslaughter of an actual Cambridge undergraduate who had killed two elderly women...
Textual Production Melesina Trench
MT sent a copy of this work (now very rare, like everything she published during her lifetime) to her friend Mary Leadbeater .
Leadbeater, Mary, and Mary Cunningham. The Annals of Ballitore, 1766-1824. Editor McKenna, John, Stephen Scroop.
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Copies are owned by the Universities of Cambridge and Glasgow .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Iris Murdoch
She lectured at University College, London, in November 1966. Her Leslie Stephen Lecture at Cambridge University a year later became The Sovereignty of Good, 1970; her Romanes Lecture delivered at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford...

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1871: The University Test Act abolished all religious...

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1871

The University Test Act abolished all religious tests (of loyalty to the Church of England ) at both ancient universities in England (Oxford and Cambridge ) for admittance to matriculation, degrees, prizes, and fellowships.

1871: Cambridge University's celebrated Cavendish...

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1871

Cambridge University 's celebrated Cavendish Laboratory for experimental physics was founded.

1873: The Cambridge Association for the Higher...

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1873

The Cambridge Association for the Higher Education of Women secured admission for women to the lectures of Cambridge University .

1881: Cambridge University began admitting women...

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1881

Cambridge University began admitting women to degree examinations, but women were not awarded degrees on the same terms as men until they finally obtained that privilege in 1947 (first degrees awarded in 1948).

March 1885: The annual Oxford and Cambridge boat race...

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March 1885

The annual Oxford and Cambridge boat race was completely overshadowed by the sensational antics of an American advertising company.

27 April 1890: Cambridge University scientist Walter Heape...

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27 April 1890

Cambridge University scientist Walter Heape transferred embryos from a pregnant Angora rabbit to the uterus of a Belgian hare.

1893: The Exeter Technical and University Extension...

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1916: Cambridge University opened its medical examinations...

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1916

Cambridge University opened its medical examinations to women.

March 1917: With war raging and Russian revolution imminent,...

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March 1917

With war raging and Russian revolution imminent, the Cambridge University Senate met to map out a B.A. degree in English.

By June 1919: The new English Tripos (or BA degree course)...

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By June 1919

The new English Tripos (or BA degree course) at Cambridge was declared by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch to be an established success.
Cannan, May, and Bevil Quiller-Couch. The Tears of War. Editor Fyfe, Charlotte, Cavalier Books.
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By autumn 1921: Cambridge University gave women undergraduates...

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By autumn 1921

Cambridge University gave women undergraduates the right to attend university lectures, and eventually to receive a degree in name—without, however, the attendant privileges, including full university membership.

Late October 1921: Following the vote against full membership...

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Late October 1921

Following the vote against full membership of Cambridge University for women, female students had to enter lectures through mobs of barracking male students.

1926: New statutes at Cambridge University first...

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1926

New statutes at Cambridge University first permitted women to hold university (as opposed to merely college) teaching posts, to belong to university faculties and sit on faculty boards.

1931: The first British female academic philosopher,...

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1931

The first British female academic philosopher, Susan Stebbing , published A Modern Introduction to Logic, the first textbook to popularise Bertrand Russell 's and Alfred North Whitehead 's difficult new formal logic alongside the old Aristotelian variety.

1932-1935: Although Ludwig Wittgenstein expressly forbade...

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1932-1935

Although Ludwig Wittgenstein expressly forbade it, analytic philosphers Alice Ambrose and Margaret MacDonald secretly took notes during his Cambridge lectures; these were later published (with Wittgenstein's approval) in two volumes known as the blue and...

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