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ML grew up in a liberal, Jewish family of high-level professionals. Her maternal grandfather had been banished from Romania in 1885 and made his new home in England. ML described her childhood religious belief in...

Her father, a Protestant, called Catholicism a good religion for a girl. From domestic activities with her Italian mother and maids in what she terms the basement world of female secrets, she learned about...

A first prologue addresses Pope , and invokes the ghosts of Shakespeare (The Wonder, as the Glory of the Land) and Dryden (Shakespear's Freind) as mentors to EB 's performance in...

This, building like so many of her works on her own experiences, reverts to her unhappy time as a student at Oxford . The protagonist is Claire, a college secretary who reflects back in the...

Its young male protagonist, recently an Oxford undergraduate, is enabled by his stupid attempt at suicide to achieve a brief, exalted feeling of being poised between life and death. The technique is experimental, drawing on...

Isabel Bretherton is a beautiful but untaught actress from the colonies (born of a Scots father and Italian mother). She falls in love with an Oxford scholar, Eustace Kendal. but is deeply wounded by his...

Starridge is a recent Oxford graduate whom his family and acquaintance find distinctly odd. He is unable to relate to others and prefers working as a freelance poet to employment in his father's accountancy firm...

The protagonist of the opening story has covered herself with glory as a student of Greek at Oxfprd , but she still has no means of earning a living except work as a governess. In...

The book is a tribute to the OxfordMAW so loved. The book traces the arrival of an orphaned heiress at the home of her uncle, a married and financially struggling Reader in classics at...

Peggy describes her ephemeral admirers with piercing humour and biting sarcasm: for example, Gilbert Mandell, who at thirty-four is twice her age. The son of a deodorant manufacturer, Gilbert deals with his father's publicity by...

The novel focuses on the war effort at home. A country squire and antiquarian is converted from resistance to enthusiasm for the cause through the traumatic death of his son and, above all, the influence...

The story is set in a town called Aire, which has been variously identified as Leeds and Sheffield. It depicts the socialist movement at a moment of transition: the rich industrialist Marsdens, the old-money...

The central characters here are Jane Cleveland, a kindly and somewhat fey Oxford don, and Prudence Bates, Jane's former student and surrogate daughter. Jane's main preoccupation is matchmaking for Prudence: she likens herself not only...

Mrs Basil, a wealthy, eccentric woman, owner of a large country house (a fairly obvious self-portrait) entertains a weekend house-party composed of her beloved grandson Niggie and his unconventional friends from Oxford : a homosexual...

It is her mother, Ione decides, who is the rock of this house, while her father is the sands—a splendid stretch with good safe bathing, but sand all the same! Amid the mixing of...