Old Burghclere subsoil chalk and greensand. Burghclere remained in the possession of the see of Winchester until 1551. The most notable Bishops of Winchester being William of Wykeham (1320 or 1324–1404), who founded New College, Oxford, and New College School in 1379, and Winchester College in 1382, but also owned, in his own right, Earlstone manor in the parish of Burghclere. William Waynflete, Lord Chancellor of England (1456–1460) and founder of Magdalen School and College in Oxford was also particularly renowned. In 1551 Edward VI received it from John Ponet, Bishop of Winchester, in exchange for lands elsewhere. King Edward VI granted
The Girl Who Was Plugged In to conform to a constructed ideal of femininity in order to avoid being seen as a failure or to some extent incomplete. To Hollinger, "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" is about ways women experience pressure from society to fulfill the set standards of femininity as seen in P. Burke's desperate desire to disembody by fully leaving her real body, and re-embody permanently as Delphi. In a society where the only way to happiness is by conforming completely to a constructed ideal, P. Burke has little choice but to live through the perfect girl body Delphi. Heather J. Hicks reinforces