Oxford University

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...

Some time during the Balliol scandal, Benjamin Jowett gave WP a stern warning, and may have advised him not to apply for university positions. Soon afterwards he was passed over for a university Proctorship. During...

She was very fond of Betty as a little girl, and took the child with her to Canada when she went there in 1921. In Betty's early years she was mainly raised by a...

RP was elected (by a vote of all available Oxford University graduates) Oxford's Professor of Poetry, to a Chair created in 1708 and never yet held by a woman. She resigned, however, after nine days.

RP 's first job was playing the viola at Westminster Abbey, for which she was paid five pounds. Later, like many graduate students, she did some teaching at Oxford , and like many...

In May 2009 she was elected the first-ever woman Professor of Poetry at Oxford , but she resigned nine days later after revealing that she had informed a couple of journalists about past sexual harassment...

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...

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...

CO 's father, Charles Oman , said that his early life had been most unhappy. He had been a poverty-stricken student, then a Fellow of All Souls. He became librarian of the...

On coming down from Oxford in 1965, AO submitted to the Manchester Guardian an essay entitled On the Disadvantages of an Oxford Education. They rejected it.

KN 's class of degree in her BA in PPE from Oxford University was announced: she was awarded a fourth-class BA (a class which was popularly believed to reflect not lack of ability but rather...

From early adolescence KN tried to write poetry. This, she felt, was an effort at maturation, using poetry as an attempt . . . to establish the conception of the subjective-real. At...

This tract had the result of getting the Tract s banned. Tutors at Oxford wrote to demand the author's resignation, principals of colleges drew up a manifesto against it, and the university's Hebdomadal Board condemned it.

DM romanticised somewhat when she wrote that Oxford Universityseems strangely un-British. Her point was that it dated back well before the Empire and was concerned with things not of power but of the spirit.

IM took her Honours BA, First Class, in Greats (classics, ancient history, and philosophy) at Somerville College , Oxford.