Morris was writing too early to know of the existence of that splendid Oxford satirist Alicia D'Anvers
, or to include in a section called Port and PrejudiceMary Jones
's early-eighteenth-century fantasy of a...
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1870: Oxford University permitted the Delegacy...
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1870
Oxford University
permitted the Delegacy of Local Examinations to examine girls in secondary education.
Markham, Felix. Oxford. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967.
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Brittain, Vera. The Women at Oxford. George G. Harrap, 1960.
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Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable, 1927.
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Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
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1873: Administrative consternation was caused when...
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Administrative consternation was caused when the top-ranked candidate in the Oxford Senior Local Examination turned out to be a woman, or girl: the seventeen-year-old Annie Rogers
. Girls had been eligible to sit these exams...
October 1886: St Hugh's College for women was founded at...
Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
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Kemp, Betty. “The Early History of St. Hugh’s College”. St. Hugh’s: One Hundred Years of Women’s Education in Oxford, edited by Penny Griffin, Macmillan, 1986, pp. 15-47.
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Keene, Anne. “Mothers of the House”. Oxford Today, Vol.
