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Dangerous by degrees : women at Oxford and the Somerville College novelists
- Title
- Dangerous by degrees : women at Oxford and the Somerville College novelists / Susan J. Leonardi.
- Author
- Leonardi, Susan J., 1946-
- Publication
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [1989]
- ©1989
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PR888.W6 L46 1988 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 254 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subject
- Somerville College (University of Oxford) > History > 20th century
- University of Oxford > In literature
- Somerville College (University of Oxford)
- University of Oxford
- 1900-1999
- English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
- Women > Education (Higher) > History > England > Oxford > 20th century
- English fiction > England > Oxford > History and criticism
- Novelists, English > Homes and haunts > England > Oxford
- Women and literature > England > History > 20th century
- English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- College stories, English > History and criticism
- Women > England > Oxford > Intellectual life
- Novelists, English > 20th century > Biography
- Women and literature > England > Oxford
- Women novelists, English > Biography
- Education, Higher, in literature
- College stories, English
- Education, Higher, in literature
- English fiction
- English fiction > Women authors
- Literature
- Novelists, English
- Novelists, English > Homes and haunts
- Women and literature
- Women > Education (Higher)
- Women > Intellectual life
- Women novelists, English
- Women and literature > England > Oxford > 20th century
- Women > Education (Higher) > England > Oxford > 20th century
- Novelists, English > England > Oxford > 20th century
- Women > Education (higher) in literature
- England
- England > Oxford
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- "Done by cheeseparing": Somerville College and the degrees-for-women debate -- "The girlies play at ball": degrees and the Somerville novelists -- Unnatural by degrees: Dorothy L. Sayers' overachieving murderess -- Of catteries, colleges, and whimsical weddings -- Muriel Jaeger's educated woman and the new nativity narrative -- From the mistresses' grove to the master's garden: the Doreen Wallace plot -- Margaret Kennedy's "roundabout way of telling things" -- All men are mortal: Winifred Holtby's plotting for survival -- Vera Brittain's educated women and (the) romance.
- ISBN
- 0813513650
- 9780813513652
- 0813513669
- 9780813513669
- LCCN
- 88015831
- OCLC
- ocm18019838
- 18019838
- SCSB-1720088
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library