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A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

Author Tag: Oxford University

Description: The following authors attended or graduated from Oxford University. Though women attended informally beginning in the 1860s, the first residential colleges, Lady Margaret Hall and Somerville, opened in 1870. The university forbid degrees for women until 1920.