Oxford University

Friend and fellow author Marghanita Laski praised the novel, and specifically MK 's depiction of Oxford life through the flashbacks that Lucy and her best friend, Melissa, have on their university days. The novel was...

When it was performed at a Writing Diasporas Conference held in Swansea, Night's Sunlight generated strong critical response.Tom Cheesman , of the University of Wales at Swansea, found strong topical interest for Wales...

George McGavin recalled her lecturing on Oxford University 's Discovery programme on the QM2 in 2006: her almost miraculous ability to captivate, entertain and inspire in equal measure. No notes, no props, no audiovisual aids...

Her election was marred by unpleasantness. Another of the three short-listed candidates, Caribbean poet Derek Walcott , withdrew from the competition after a letter-writing campaign brought to the attention of potential voters the fact that...

Of Do Come and Bring Your Fiends [sic], in which a young woman with a recent Oxford degree finds and loses love, June Shepherd wrote the pain leaps clear from these pages.

After her schooling at St Leonard's and before her brief time at Oxford , Margaret Haig Thomas (later MHVR ) was a debutante for three years, during which time she was bored and suffocated by...

This work in Hudibrastics presents Oxford University as a hotbed of misogyny and sexual misconduct, an enemy of the Muses, and a cynical tourist attraction. ADA 's opening address To the University (in heroic couplets...

While at boarding school and Oxford , BP was heavily influenced by the novels of Aldous Huxley , whose books inspired her to become a writer.

She claimed to have forgotten about this article when discussion reached her some years later about how its title had been linked with a line by Robert Graves to form the graffito Far away is...

Jemima (a graduate of Cambridge) here visits Oxford , with which her relationship is complicated by fact that she is to do a documentary on the minority of upper-crust, over-privileged students recently highlighted in the...

In 1969 the poet Roy Fuller , about to lecture on syllabics at Oxford and planning to centre his remarks on Marianne Moore , discovered just in time how important ED 's experiments were in...

In 1868 Mary Augusta Arnold met Mark Pattison , Rector of Lincoln College and a prominent Oxford scholar, and his wife, Emily Francis Pattison , a former art student and connoisseur. Unconventional and bohemian, the...

He commented on her work, and encouraged her to improve her style. His two main suggestions were that her art was too ornamental and decorative, and that it was not sufficiently fine and delicate...

MM 's friends included, in London, a number of scientists or natural philosophers: inventor Robert Hooke (who often visited her, and with whom she discussed dreams), physician and collector Sir Hans Sloane , and scholar...

BP encountered Lord David Cecil (Oxford don, longtime admirer, and one of the two recent rediscoverers of her work) at a media event filmed by the BBC and aired as Tea With Miss Pym.