Oxford University

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...

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...

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...

Again the subject is an unhappy marriage, in which the wife is plaintive and neurotic and the dislikeable husband is (as a change from the law) a dentist. The work was remarkable for its...

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...

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...

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...

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...

She thus records her entry into the all-male institution of Oxford University in the nineteenth century. She goes on: There was already an elder sister and it had been a son that had been hoped...

ER contributed an essay to the Economic Journal which was reprinted in September as The Remuneration of Women's Services in The Making of Women: Oxford Essays in Feminism.