Peck, Winifred. A Little Learning; or, A Victorian Childhood. Faber and Faber.
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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 | 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 |
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... |
Textual Production | Gertrude Bell | Her historical importance has been recognised by two recent biographies, those of Janet Wallach
, 1996 (Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell, Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia)... |
Textual Production | Gerard Manley Hopkins | GMH
won the Poetry Prize at Highgate School
in 1860, the year he turned sixteen. He was still writing as an undergraduate at Oxford
in 1863-7. But when he became a Jesuit
in 1868 he... |
Textual Production | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | In 1981, Ananda Publishers
of Calcutta issued KKD
's autobiographical sketches written in Bengali, Nari, Nogori. Here KKD
remembers her undergraduate years at Oxford
. She especially focuses on her friendships with Eastern Europeans... |
Textual Production | Iris Murdoch | Through winning scholarships, this boy, Hilary Burde (the novel's narrator), eventually becomes a Fellow at an Oxford
college. He loses his position because of a disastrous affair with a colleague's wife which results in her... |
Textual Production | Dorothy L. Sayers |