Wadham College, Oxford University

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Employer	Ruth Padel	RP 's first job was playing the viola at Westminster Abbey, for which she was paid five pounds. Ruth Padel. http://web.archive.org/web/20090507090438/http://www.ruthpadel.com/index.htm. website Later, like many graduate students, she did some teaching at Oxford , and like many...
Family and Intimate relationships	Elizabeth Bowen	EB began her first affair, with Humphry House , a Fellow of Wadham College , Oxford. Hoogland, Renée C. Elizabeth Bowen: A Reputation in Writing. New York University Press, 1994. 11 Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. 106
Family and Intimate relationships	Susannah Gunning	SG 's father, the Rev. James Minifie, DD, of Staplegrove in Somerset, described himself as a gentleman when he matriculated at Wadham College , Oxford. He died in April 1768. Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Margaret Minifie and Susannah Gunning. 15 Apr. 2016. Foster, Joseph. Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886. Foster, 1887.
Family and Intimate relationships	Susannah Gunning	Two of their brothers matriculated at Wadham College in 1754-1755. Foster, Joseph. Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886. Foster, 1887.
Leisure and Society	John Wilmot second Earl of Rochester	Rochester's famous debauchery seems to have begun when he was taught to drink as a barely teenage undergraduate at Wadham College, Oxford . The anecdotes of his escapades are legion; it is remarkable that he...
Publishing	Alicia D'Anvers	A new edition of ADA 's Academia appeared, again anonymously, in response to a recent play: The Humours of Oxford , A Comedy, by a Wadham undergraduate. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Timeline

1609

Wadham College , Oxford, was founded by Dorothy Wadham , after her husband's death.

Thackrah, John Richard. The University and Colleges of Oxford. Dalton, 1981.

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Markham, Felix. Oxford. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967.

October 1974

The first women students were admitted to formerly all-male colleges of Oxford University: Brasenose , Hertford , St Catherine's , Jesus , and Wadham .

Hitch, Susan. “Women”. The Oxford Myth, edited by Rachel Johnson, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988.

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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.

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Thomas, Keith. “College Life, 1945-1970”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Vol.

viii

, Clarendon Press, 1994, pp. 189-15.

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