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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Judith Kazantzis
JK 's father, Francis Aungier Pakenham, was an Oxford academic teaching political science when his daughter Judith was born. He was already a maverick: he commanded the Oxford Local Defence Volunteers (later the Home Guard)...
Family and Intimate relationships Sarah Dixon
SD 's brother James, born in 1672, studied at Oxford and died young in 1700, deeply mourned. She never mentions the other brother, Robert, b. 1673, who became a lawyer and had a large family.
Messenger, Ann. Pastoral Tradition and the Female Talent: Studies in Augustan Poetry. AMS Press, 2001.
136-7
Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press, 2013.
129
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Sewell
James Edwards Sewell (1810-1903) became an academic. He served as Warden of New College, Oxford , and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University .
Sewell, Elizabeth. The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell. Editor Sewell, Eleanor L., Longmans, Green, 1907.
xi
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.
Family and Intimate relationships Cassandra Cooke
CC 's elder son, Theophilus, was born in 1776. His mother was trying in 1799, after his graduation, to get him a parish, and in 1802 to get him a better one. Her younger son...
Family and Intimate relationships Diana Athill
One of DA 's aunts had studied at Oxford , become the family bluestocking, and worked as a hospital almoner in London, but had come home when her father died to look after her perfectly...
Family and Intimate relationships E. J. Scovell
He was a son of the man of letters Oliver Elton . At the time of his wedding to EJS he was Oxford University 's Reader in Animal Ecology and a Senior Research Fellow of...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Goudge
The Goudge family moved from Ely to Oxford when EG 's father became Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University .
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
Family and Intimate relationships Aldous Huxley
Their brother Trevenen committed suicide in August 1914, having done (comparatively) badly in exams at Oxford , and fallen in love with a girl who worked as a maid (whom his family regarded as impossible)...
Family and Intimate relationships Jane Warton
JW 's brothers, Joseph (her elder by two years) and Thomas (her younger by six), each made a name for himself in the literary and academic worlds. Joseph was Headmaster of Winchester College (a public...
Family and Intimate relationships Doreen Wallace
DW never names the man, a childhood friend who came back from the Great War with a shattered knee, who broke her heart by failing fully to return the passionate love which developed between them...
Family and Intimate relationships Helen Dunmore
Her mother, born Betty Smith, took university degrees at Manchester and Oxford universities.
Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849–2024, Annual Volumes.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
267
Family and Intimate relationships Elspeth Huxley
She hoped for more children, but this did not happen. Meanwhile, she found the organization of childcare difficult in her extremely busy life.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002.
165-6, 180-1, 204
Charles was educated at boarding schools. He badly antagonised...
Family and Intimate relationships Ketaki Kushari Dyson
Ketaki Kushari married Robert Dyson , an Englishman and then a graduate student, whom she had met during her own undergraduate studies at Oxford University .
Dyson, Ketaki Kushari, and Rebecca Blasco. Emails about Ketaki Dyson to Rebecca Blasco. 17 Feb. 2005.
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.
175
Family and Intimate relationships Josephine Butler
JB 's husband was a university instructor who was ordained in the Anglican church in 1854. During the early years of their marriage he taught geography at Oxford University .
Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research, 1998.
190: 66
Jordan, Jane. Josephine Butler. John Murray, 2001.
38
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Rigby
In June the previous year he had received an honorary degree from Oxford University .
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1961.
100-1

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