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337 Notes I have identified works and archives frequently cited in the notes by the following abbreviations: Centenary History Margaret E. Rayner, Centenary History of St. Hilda’s College, Oxford (London: Lindsay Ross Publishing, 1993). HUO Brian Harrison, ed., The History of the University of Oxford, Vol. 8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994). LMHA Lady Margaret Hall Archives, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford LMHL Lady Margaret Hall Library, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford SAA St. Anne’s Archives, St. Anne’s College, Oxford SACL St. Anne’s College Library, St. Anne’s College, Oxford SCA Somerville College Archives, Somerville College, Oxford SHiA St. Hilda’s Archives, St. Hilda’s College, Oxford SHA St. Hugh’s Archives, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford schools could include children from seven to twenty and were provided only for the middle classes. Higher education generally referred to university-level work. See Gillian Sutherland, “The Movement for the Higher Education of Women,” 94. 5. Quoted in June Purvis, A History of Women’s Education in England, 108. 6. Quoted in Elaine Kaye, A History of Queen’s College, London, 1848–1972, 39. 7. Cheltenham catered to a select clientele; daughters of tradesmen were refused admittance. The North London Collegiate School had no policy of social exclusiveness; if parents could pay the fees, their daughters were admitted. Beale disliked the idea of competition, and she initially refused to allow her pupils to participate in organized games or in public examinations when they were opened to girls, although she eventually changed her position on both counts. Buss Preface 1. Harold Macmillan, “Oxford Remembered,” Times (London), October 18, 1975. 2. Vera Brittain, The Women at Oxford, 16. Chapter 1 1. Joseph A. Banks and Olive Banks, Feminism and Family Planning in Victorian England, 28. According to the authors, lower-class boys may have been more likely to die young than boys from the middle and upper classes. 2. Jane Austen, Emma, 18–19. 3. Pamela Horn, “The Victorian Governess,” History of Education 18 (1989): 335. 4. In nineteenth-century England, elementary schools were only for the working classes and could include children as old as fourteen. Secondary 338 Notes to Pages 5–18 was a great believer in physical exercise and wholeheartedly encouraged her girls to participate in public examinations and to pursue higher education whenever any opportunity presented itself. The two women were the subjects of an anonymous rhyme that had wide circulation in their lifetimes: “Miss Buss and Miss Beale / Cupid’s darts do not feel; / How different from us, / Miss Beale and Miss Buss!” Buss apparently found the rhyme amusing; Beale did not. 8. Emily Davies (1830–1921) became one of the leading activists for women’s causes in the mid– to late nineteenth century after moving to London on the death of her father in 1861. She was involved with a group of women who helped found the feminist Englishwoman’s Journal in 1858 and the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women in 1860. She also worked hard in support of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, who campaigned unsuccessfully to be the first woman to attend medical school in England but who, after obtaining an M.D. degree from the University of Paris in 1870, practiced medicine in Britain and was the first woman member of the British Medical Association. 9. Quoted in Barbara Stephen, Emily Davies and Girton College, 88–89. 10. Quoted in Purvis, History of Women’s Education in England, 74. 11. Quoted in Vera Brittain, The Women at Oxford, 34. 12. Quoted in Stephen, Emily Davies and Girton College, 139. 13. Quoted in Barry Turner, Equality for Some, 107. 14. Quoted in Josephine Kamm, Hope Deferred, 251. 15. Brittain, Women at Oxford, 31–32. 16. Quoted in Stephen, Emily Davies and Girton College, 146–47. 17. A fellow is an elected member of the governing board of an incorporated college who normally undertakes teaching and/or research duties. Fellows and their head constitute a college. 18. Quoted in Stephen, Emily Davies and Girton College, 194. 19. Ibid., 229. 20. Quoted in Kamm, Hope Deferred, 258. 21. Ibid., 259. 22. Margaret Bryant, The Unexpected Revolution. 23. Ibid., 60. Chapter 2 1. Letter from Charlotte Green to Miss Rogers, August 26, 1873, St. Anne’s College Archives (hereafter, SAA). Charlotte Green, sister of the writer John Addington Symonds, began her Oxford life in 1871 when she married T. H. Green, fellow of Balliol. She acted as joint secretary for the Association for Promoting the Education of Women...