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In 1920, the University of Oxford admitted women to degrees for the first time during the Michaelmas term. The conferrals occurred on 14 October,[1] 26 October,[2] 29 October,[3] 30 October[4] and 13 November.[5]
List of admitted women
- Cecilia Mary Ady[6]
- Gwyneth Bebb[7]
- Beatrice Blackwood[8]
- D. K. Broster
- Alice Bruce
- Muriel St. Clare Byrne[9]
- Auvergne Doherty
- Una Ellis-Fermor
- Joan Evans[10]
- Barbara Freire-Marreco
- Viola Garvin
- Rose Graham
- Muriel Jaeger
- Evelyn Jamison
- Henrietta Jex-Blake
- Eleanor Jourdain[11]
- Margaret Kennedy
- Jane Kirkaldy
- Leah L'Estrange Malone
- Margaret Leigh
- A. E. Levett
- Eleanor Lodge
- Winifred Moberly
- Hilda D. Oakeley
- Doris Odlum
- Emily Penrose
- Mildred K. Pope
- Mary Winearls Porter
- Evelyn Procter[12]
- Annie Rogers
- Constance Savery
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Edith Philip Smith
- Janet Spens
- Enid Starkie
- Margerie Venables Taylor
- Cicely Williams[13]
- Ivy Williams
References
- ^ _____, "Degrees conferred at Oxford". Yorkshire Post, 15 October 1920. 5.
- ^ _____, "MA Degree for Seventeen Women Tutors". Yorkshire Post, 27 October 1920. 5.
- ^ _____, "University Intelligence: Oxford–Thursday. Conferment of Degrees". Yorkshire Post, 29 October 1920. 6.
- ^ _____, "Oxford–Saturday. Degrees for Women". Yorkshire Post, 1 November 1920. 9.
- ^ _____, "University Intelligence: Oxford–Saturday. Conferment of Degrees." Yorkshire Post, 15 November 1920. 5.
- ^ Kohl, Benjamin G. (2009) [2004]. "Ady, Cecilia Mary (1881–1958)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/40619. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Bebb [married name Thomson], Gwyneth Marjory (1889–1921), campaigner for women's admission to the legal profession". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/101944. Retrieved 19 September 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Penniman, T. K. (March 1976). "Obituary: Beatrice Mary Blackwood". Oceania. 46 (3): 235–237.
- ^ "The Lives and Loves of Muriel St Clare Byrne". Sommerville College, Oxford. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- ^ "Dame Joan Evans profile". Feb 2009. University of Oxford, Ashmolean Museum. Archived from the original on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
- ^ Howarth, Janet (2004), "Jourdain, Eleanor Frances (1863–1924)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.), Oxford University Press, retrieved 10 September 2015
- ^ Highfield, J. R. L. (May 2010). "Procter, Evelyn Emma Stefanos (1897–1980)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
- ^ Gairdner, Douglas (1984). "Book review: Retired, Except on Demand: The Life of Dr Cicely Williams, by Sally Craddock". Archives of Disease in Childhood (hosted by British Medical Journal Online). Retrieved 28 July 2012.