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Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Elstob | She got as far as renting a house for her school, but it seems that events then overtook her. Since her edition had failed, she had to refund money put up by subscribers, and once... |
Wealth and Poverty | Frances Reynolds | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Thomas Hardy | In following with previous novels, the publication of this one was met with controversy. The hero, born into the working class, finds English society in general and more particularly the University of Oxford
hostile to... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Brilliana, Lady Harley | The letters of this correspondence, even more verbally demonstrative than those to her husband, also teem with good advice about diet, exercise, and learning. When her son arrives at university, BLH
urges him to read... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Joanna Cannan | The frontispiece depicts Oxford, and the university occupies a prominent position in the book (though JC
writes fondly, too, of villages like Peppard Common where she herself lived). Her second sentence proclaims: We who live... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Winifred Peck | A diary she kept during her last few weeks as an Oxford
undergraduate was, she lated judged, rendered tedious by its starry-eyed, over-romantic enumeration of natural and architectural beauties. Peck, Winifred. A Little Learning; or, A Victorian Childhood. Faber and Faber. 154 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Doreen Wallace | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dorothy L. Sayers | The academic background gives DLS
an excuse for lavish literary quotation: from Greek, from Shakespeare
and other canonical writers, many of them Elizabethan, and from moderns like Humbert Wolfe
. Her Oxford
is the preserve... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Goudge | Towers in the Mist, the second book in this main series, is set in a different cathedral city, Oxford (more precisely in Christ Church
), during the reign of Elizabeth I
, and the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dervla Murphy | DM
romanticised somewhat when she wrote that Oxford Universityseems strangely un-British. Her point was that it dated back well before the Empire and was concerned with things not of power but of the spirit. Murphy, Dervla. Wheels within Wheels. J. Murray. 179 |
Textual Production | Emma Robinson | It was submitted to the Chamberlain as the work of a a young Oxonian: another young male identity, since women could not attend university any more than they could train for the army. The... |
Textual Production | Evelyn Waugh | Waugh had begun keeping a diary as an adolescent, but he evidently destroyed those parts that covered his years at Oxford
. Also missing from the extant diary are any account of the end of... |
Textual Production | Naomi Mitchison | According to her daughter Lois Godfrey
, it appeared in the Journal of Physiology when NM
was sixteen and a member of the Society of Home Students
(later St Anne's College
) at Oxford University
. The Ship. St Anne’s College. 89: 41 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Tollet | Her other brother, already at Oxford
, was apparently not a very diligent student. Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University. 15 |
Textual Production | Elspeth Huxley | They had begun planning such a book after meeting at a Colonial Conference in summer 1941, at Oxford
, where Perham was Reader in Colonial Administration. Lord Lugard
supplied an introduction. Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins. 166, 168 |