Jays, David. “Forever changes”. The Observer.
Oxford University
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Marina Warner | The book emerged from the Clarendon Lectures given at Oxford
in 2001. |
| Reception | Marina Warner | Subsequently, Warner has been a Visiting Fellow at the British Film Institute
(1992), Trinity College, Cambridge
(1998), the Humanities Research Centre, Warwick University
(1999), Stanford University
(2000), and All Souls College
, Oxford (2001). She... |
| Friends, Associates | Sylvia Townsend Warner | STW
's early friendships at Oxford
involved young men whom she had known at Harrow, such as David Garnett
and sculptor Stephen Tomlin
. Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Introduction”. Letters: Sylvia Townsend Warner, edited by William Maxwell, Chatto and Windus, p. vii - xvii. xiii Warner, Sylvia Townsend, and David Garnett. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sylvia and David: The Townsend Warner / Garnett Letters, edited by Richard Garnett, Sinclair-Stevenson, p. various pages. 2 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Warton | JW
's brothers, Joseph
(her elder by two years) and Thomas
(her younger by six), each made a name for himself in the literary and academic worlds. Joseph was Headmaster of Winchester College
(a public... |
| Characters | Evelyn Waugh | 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... |
| Dedications | Evelyn Waugh | Its working title was Untoward Incidents. It was rejected as obscene by Duckworth
before Waugh turned to his father's firm. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Waugh, Evelyn. Decline and Fall. Chapman. prelims |
| Textual Features | Evelyn Waugh | The man who emerges as the white protagonist of the story, Basil Seal, is in trouble with his feckless, privileged circle at home, fed up and wanting to get away, when he is invited to... |
| Literary Setting | Evelyn Waugh | The viewpoint here is that of the narrator, Charles Ryder, as he looks back nostalgically from his current army milieu to the vanished privilege of an English country house and an Oxford
college. Ryder is... |
| Textual Production | Evelyn Waugh | Waugh had begun keeping a diary as an adolescent, but he evidently destroyed those parts that covered his years at Oxford
. Also missing from the extant diary are any account of the end of... |
| Education | Jeanette Winterson | JW
attended Accrington Girls' Grammar School, then Accrington College of Further Education. Although she first failed the Oxford University
entrance exams, she travelled to meet with the authorities and persuaded them to give her a... |
| Reception | Mary Wollstonecraft | Katharine Marion Metcalfe
, a recent graduate at Oxford University
, did something extraordinary in enquiring of Professor Sir Walter Raleigh
whether materials existed for research on MW
. Raleigh proposed that Metcalfe should edit Jane Austen
instead. Barchas, Janine. “The Lost Books of Austen Studies”. States of the Book. CSECS/SCEDHS annual conference. |
| Other Life Event | Charlotte Yonge | A subscription was raised at Winchester School to found a scholarship in honour of CY
, to take boys from the school on to Oxford
or Cambridge
. Hayter, Alethea. Charlotte Yonge. Northcote House. viii Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
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