Oxford University

EH 's collection of books about Africa was bought by the University of California at Santa Barbara . She rejected an offer by Boston University for her papers with a claim to have destroyed all...

In her final exams MJ earned the equivalent of a second-class honours BA in English Language and Literature from Oxford University , after adding an extra year to the three-year degree course, probably because of...

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...

EJ took her Oxford BA Honours in English Language and Literature at St Anne's College .

RPJ 's brother, Siegbert Salomon Prawer , is two years older. While Ruth quickly began writing in English and rarely deals with German topics, her brother read German at Cambridge and embarked on an academic...

PHJ attended Clapham County Secondary School until she left at the age of sixteen and a half. Her mother paid fees of five pounds a term until she had to ask to be excused them...

In her local life, however, MJ felt isolated. On one occasion she told Martha Lovelace (later Beauclerk) that her only friend was a young Student of Oxford—probably not an intellectually stimulating friendship...

Between poems and letters come essays, of which the first contains a fantasy in which a woman studies in the Bodleian Library and gets an honorary degree from Oxford University .

After her father's death, her mother moved her to a boarding school at Lausanne in Switzerland, and then to a progressive girls' school, Parsons Mead School in Ashtead, Surrey. Before long Helen had...

Let Me Alone is the book which introduces the orphan protagonist Anna Kavan, whose name the author later adopted as her persona. This novel of feminist protest is considered autobiographical, since Kavan's Aunt Lauretta is...

JK 's father, Francis Aungier Pakenham, was an Oxford academic teaching political science when his daughter Judith was born. He was already a maverick: he commanded the Oxford Local Defence Volunteers (later the Home Guard)...

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...

LEL's brother was Whittington Henry Landon . The profits from her writing contributed to his university education at Oxford .

The story first picks Phippy up in Form II; in Form IV he fails to borrow a dictionary from an aesthete named the Hon. Percy de Selincourt, who in Form V betrays him and precipitates...

At OxfordPL embarked, with Kingsley Amis , on a series of wild parodies and travesties, most notably Larkin's Willow Gables series of spoof school stories for girls. He also provided ideas, suggestions, a plot...