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EB was awarded a CBE in 1948, and received two honorary degrees: from Trinity College , Dublin, in 1949 and from Oxford University in 1956.

RP was elected (by a vote of all available Oxford University graduates) Oxford's Professor of Poetry, to a Chair created in 1708 and never yet held by a woman. She resigned, however, after nine days.

This tract had the result of getting the Tract s banned. Tutors at Oxford wrote to demand the author's resignation, principals of colleges drew up a manifesto against it, and the university's Hebdomadal Board condemned it.

Katharine Marion Metcalfe , a recent graduate at Oxford University , did something extraordinary in enquiring of Professor Sir Walter Raleigh whether materials existed for research on MW . Raleigh proposed that Metcalfe should edit Jane Austen instead.

KKD feels strongly that the difficulty she has faced in attracting an English-speaking audience and commanding the attention of English-speaking critics is related to her ethnicity and bilingualism. Most of the slender English criticism of...

She received further honorary degrees from Durham (June 1948), Oxford (June 1951), and Sheffield (1955).

She stood as a candidate for election as Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1968, but was unsuccessful. (Four years later John Betjeman told her that she would have been a better choice for Poet...

CC has been recognised in Britain and the US with several major awards for play writing. As early as 1961, she won the Richard Hillary Memorial Prize at Oxford University . New York productions of...

HM already features in critical surveys of the modern British novel, such as that by Nick Rennison , 2004. A. S. Byatt discusses her (among writers of both sexes including predecessors Elizabeth Bowen and Muriel Spark

At St John's College, Cambridge , for instance, there flourished an Amanda Ros Club, whose members amused themselves by trying to write in the Amanda style. Another such organisation, the Amanda Ros Society, formed...

He received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University in the same year.

NM was made an Honorary Fellow of her old college, St Anne's , Oxford .

UAF 's poetry was broadcast on the BBC 's Woman's Hour and selected for Poems on the Underground. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1987, a CBE in...

ASB is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and received an honorary D.Litt. from Oxford University on 20 June 2007. Her official website, www.asbyatt.com/, including comment and a detailed bibliography, became...

MS received an Honorary DLitt from Oxford University .