ABSTRACT
This is a paper about the intertwined lives of two Victorian siblings, Clara and Walter Pater (1841–1910 and 1839–1894 respectively). It highlights their gendered acquisition of higher education between 1859 and 1879 that resulted in their parallel employment at Oxford as tutors of classics, he at Brasenose College and she at Somerville. It also examines the problems of writing women's history and about women's lives; how do women enter history? The paper is framed within an account of its author's decision to move from a single author biography of a well-known male author, to a collective biography of siblings.
