Oxford University

After her rescue from poverty and obscurity EE was visited by scholars eager to discuss their work with her. Edward Rowe Mores (who published a standard work on type-founding in 1754) visited her late in...

While studying at Oxford , he became a friend of Edward Burne-Jones , who introduced him to an extraordinary group of young men: William Fulford , Charles Faulkner , Cormell Price , and Richard Watson Dixon

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...

Jemima (a graduate of Cambridge) here visits Oxford , with which her relationship is complicated by fact that she is to do a documentary on the minority of upper-crust, over-privileged students recently highlighted in the...

This work in Hudibrastics presents Oxford University as a hotbed of misogyny and sexual misconduct, an enemy of the Muses, and a cynical tourist attraction. ADA 's opening address To the University (in heroic couplets...

While at boarding school and Oxford , BP was heavily influenced by the novels of Aldous Huxley , whose books inspired her to become a writer.

After her schooling at St Leonard's and before her brief time at Oxford , Margaret Haig Thomas (later MHVR ) was a debutante for three years, during which time she was bored and suffocated by...

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...

Of Do Come and Bring Your Fiends [sic], in which a young woman with a recent Oxford degree finds and loses love, June Shepherd wrote the pain leaps clear from these pages.

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...

When it was performed at a Writing Diasporas Conference held in Swansea, Night's Sunlight generated strong critical response.Tom Cheesman , of the University of Wales at Swansea, found strong topical interest for Wales...

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...

Mr Waters's wealthy uncle Gilbert forces him to quit his job and live on a stipend of one hundred pounds a year on the understanding that he will become Gilbert's heir. Waters, his wife, and...

Olive Flowerdew, a Suffolk smallholder's daughter, home from her first vacation from Oxford , finds herself alienated from her family: from her father, who is generously willing to be left behind as she gets ahead...

In Gaudy Night, Harriet Vane returns to Oxford, the scene of her student days at Shrewsbury College, a fictional women's college . Her first visit is for a gaudy, but she soon returns...