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I like to tell the story of Annie Mary Ann Henley Rogers, who took the Oxford school examinations which had been opened to girls in 1870. She signed her exam papers with her initials. After her deception was discovered, Rogers was offered books and the scholarship given to a boy. Rogers sat examinations for women in 1877 and 1879, giving her the equivalent of first-class marks in Latin and Greek and Ancient History.
n 1879, with the opening of Somerville College and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University opened its first halls for women students and Rogers, as the only woman with the equivalent of an Oxford University degree became a don (lecturer). In 1881 she became a Senior Tutor in Classics.[3]:82
7 In 1897, she wrote a paper titled "The position of women at Oxford and Cambridge" which set out a case for improved funding for women's education
Notably she became to secretary of the Society of Oxford Home-Students which would, in 1952, become St Anne's College, Oxford.[10] She was a talented tutor to the women who were studying Classics at home and she is acknowledged as one of the founders of St Anne's College.[1]
died in 37, struck by lorry
