Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
St Hilda's College, Oxford University
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Cultural formation | Barbara Pym | Her biographers and critics have devoted much comment to her personal and literary statements on women, marriage, and independence. Wyatt-Brown reads her return to her family home as a fairly conservative action for her place... |
Education | Wendy Cope | |
Education | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | On a West Bengal Government Scholarship, KKD
attended St Hilda's College, Oxford University
, where she took a first-class Honours BA in English. Dyson, Ketaki Kushari. “Forging a Bilingual Identity: A Writer’s Testimony”. Bilingual Women: Anthropological Approaches to Second Language Use, edited by Pauline Burton et al., Berg, 1994, pp. 170-85. 174 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Dyson, Ketaki Kushari, and Rebecca Blasco. Emails about Ketaki Dyson to Rebecca Blasco. 17 Feb. 2005. |
Education | Jo Shapcott | JS
continued studying at several universities and in several countries for some years after this. At St Hilda's College, Oxford
, she took another degree two years later, specialising in American literature. She attended Harvard University |
Education | Barbara Pym | BP
read English at St Hilda's College, Oxford University
. She graduated with a Second Class Honours BA. Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994. 2 Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994. 5 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth von Arnim | Barbara Pym
, who discovered EA
at during her student days at Oxford
, acknowledged the influence of her wit and delicate irony. qtd. in Maddison, Isobel. “A Second Flowering”. London Library Magazine, No. 15, 1 Mar.–31 May 2012, pp. 14-16. 16 |
Leisure and Society | Aphra Behn | St Hilda's College
, Oxford, holds a portrait by Mary Beale
, the most successful woman artist of her day, which has been thought to represent Behn. Scholar Maureen E. Mulvihill
discussed (with illustrations)... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Barbara Pym | BP
's other juvenilia include poems and short stories published in the literary magazine at her boarding school, Liverpool College
: The Sad Story of Alphonse, Henry Shakespeare, Adolphe, Satire (an imitation... |
Occupation | Barbara Pym | By the date of her retirement BP
had suffered a decade of rejection of her writing. She now sought other activities, like joining the Finstock Local History Society
. She was also a preliminary judge... |
Reception | Catherine Cookson | Also in 1982, CC
received an honorary master's degree from Newcastle University
. With typical doubleness, she said the degree had finally replaced the chip on her shoulder while simultaneously expressing disappointment at only receiving... |
Reception | P. D. James | She received an impressive number of honours from various universities. She had an Honorary DLitt from the Universities of Buckingham (1992), London (1993), Hertfordshire (1994), Glasgow (1995), Durham (1998), and Portsmouth (1999). She also had... |
Textual Production | Barbara Pym | BP
began keeping a diary in 1931. Her papers are archived at the Bodleian Library
, Oxford University
. (BP
took her degree at St Hilda's College
.) This material includes unpublished poems, short... |
Wealth and Poverty | Catherine Cookson | That estimate covered what remained after giving large sums away, much of it to medical research. The Cookson mouse has been developed to bear the gene for haemorrhagic teleangiectasia: hopefully a step towards a cure... |
Timeline
February 1854: A Governors' Report set out the intentions...
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February 1854
A Governors' Report set out the intentions for Cheltenham Ladies' College
, now opening as an exclusive boarding school at Cheltenham in Gloucestershire. For some years this school filled the function of a University...
October 1879: Somerville College, one of the two first...
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October 1879
Somerville College
, one of the two first residential women's colleges at Oxford University, opened its doors to students.
Green, Vivian Hubert Howard. A History of Oxford University. Batsford, 1974.
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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.
345-6, 374-5
Keene, Anne. “Mothers of the House”. Oxford Today, Vol.
15
, No. 2, 2003, pp. 29-31. 29, 30
1893: St Hilda's College, later a women's college...
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1893
St Hilda's College
, later a women's college of Oxford University, was founded as St Hilda's Hall by Dorothea Beale
; she appointed Esther Burrows
as its first principal.
Grier, Miss L. “Women’s Education at Oxford”. Handbook to the University of Oxford, Clarendon, 1956, pp. 291-9.
293
Whitaker’s Almanack. 119th ed., J. Whitaker, 1987.
504
Keene, Anne. “Mothers of the House”. Oxford Today, Vol.
15
, No. 2, 2003, pp. 29-31. 29, 30
1964: When Julia Ballam (an undergraduate at St...
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1964
When Julia Ballam
(an undergraduate at St Hilda's College, Oxford
, who later became the scholar Julia Briggs) got pregnant, the college stripped her of her scholarship, but more remarkably for this date they did...
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