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Connections Author name Excerpt
names Barbara Pym
  • BirthName: Barbara Mary Crampton Pym
  • Self-constructed: Sandra
    To reflect the more dashing aspects of her character,
    Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994.
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    BP used the name Sandra at Oxford . Her friend and biographer Hazel Holt suggests that she may...
names Felicia Skene
  • BirthName: Felicia Mary Frances Skene
  • Pseudonyms: A Seven Years' Resident of Greece; Francis Scougal; Erskine Moir; Oxoniensis
    This last name means, in Latin, of Oxford; it was an ironical title, since it.was generally used...
Occupation Alice Oswald
AO was elected by a large majority to the 311-year-old Chair of Poetry at Oxford University , as the first woman to hold the position.
Lea, Richard. “Alice Oswald elected Oxford professor of poetry by huge margin”. The Guardian, 21 June 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/21/alice-oswald-elected-oxford-professor-of-poetry-by-huge-margin.
Occupation Matthew Arnold
MA delivered his final lecture as Professor of Poetry at Oxford ; Culture and its Enemies is now known as the beginning of his important work Culture and Anarchy.
Arnold, Matthew. “Editorial Materials”. Culture and Anarchy, edited by Samuel Lipman, Yale University Press, 1994, p. Various pages.
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Occupation Emma Marshall
While living first in Exeter and then in Gloucester, EM organized evening lectures for women, a cause into which she threw herself heart and soul.
Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900.
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(In Exeter she also visited the women's penitentiary...
Occupation Algernon Charles Swinburne
He turned down an honorary degree from Oxford and a Civil List pension.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Occupation Matthew Arnold
Educated at Oxford , MA was a school inspector from 1851 to 1886 and remained dedicated to the improvement of the English educational system throughout his life. He began publishing first as a poet, but...
Occupation William John Courthope
WJC became Professor of Poetry at Oxford and was responsible for finishing an important edition of Alexander Pope which had been begun by Whitwell Elwin . As an editor he tended to read Pope's later...
Occupation Gertrude Stein
GS delivered lectures at Cambridge and Oxford Universities; these were later published by the Hogarth Press .
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975.
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Occupation Flora Annie Steel
During the First World War she travelled the country giving lectures with slides shown on her own magic lantern, organized the knitting of comforters for the troops, and supported the Women's Institute (whose earliest...
Occupation W. H. Auden
Following his election as Professor of Poetry at Oxford University , WHA gave his inaugural lecture.
Auden, W. H. The Dyer’s Hand and Other Essays. Faber and Faber, 1975.
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Occupation Marina Warner
MW began her career as a journalist while at Oxford , editing the University magazine Isis; she then freelanced for many journals and newspapers, including Vogue. She also worked in radio broadcasting from...
Occupation Helen Waddell
After Oxford (where she gave the lectures which launched her scholarly career), HW applied for various academic jobs, which her biographer Monica Blackett considers it lucky she did not get. (Many of these jobs included...
Occupation William Morris
While still at Oxford , WM began writing poetry with great dedication. He eventually published poems, stories, articles, and a single review (of Robert Browning 's Men and Women) in the periodical he produced...
Occupation Ketaki Kushari Dyson
After finishing her BA degree at Oxford , KKD returned to Calcutta to teach at Jadavpur University for one year.
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. “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.
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