Degrees by Degrees: the story of the admission of Oxford women students to membership of the university

by Annie Mary Anne Henley Rogers

This book was already written but was published posthumously by her brother Clement a year after Annies death in a traffic accident. Annie Rogers was the only daughter (and eldest of six children) of classics teacher, Thorold Rogers who later was a respected political economist. She was educated alongside her brothers and was an outstanding classical student. Annie Mary Anne Henley Rogers was the first woman to gain honours in a University examination which was intended to be equivalent to that taken by men. In 1877 she gained first class honours in Latin and Greek in the Second Examination for Honours in the recently instituted 'Examination of Women'. In 1879 she followed this with first class honours in Ancient History. The new University statute of 1920 eventually admitted women to full membership of the University, this came into effect from October that year. This statute, towards which Annie had worked for forty years, enabled women who had previously taken and gained honours in University examinations to have their degrees. Forty women, including Annie Rogers, were the first women to be presented with their degrees in a formal ceremony on 26 October 1920.

163 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1938