Oxford University

As a child DA began writing a play in which a cousin was to play the role of the good, blond and slightly insipid princess, while Diana was to be the dark, wicked one.

While she was a recently-enrolled graduate student at Oxford in early 1921, HW gave, by invitation, her first course of lectures. In 1926 she did another series of eight lectures on medieval mime. She intended...

This text grew out of the socio-economic research which she had begun in 1896, following her return to Liverpool from Oxford .

WH began writing this novel, which was originally titled Anlaby Wold, in 1920 while she and Vera Brittain were still students at Oxford .

At OxfordPL embarked, with Kingsley Amis , on a series of wild parodies and travesties, most notably Larkin's Willow Gables series of spoof school stories for girls. He also provided ideas, suggestions, a plot...

EJS began writing poetry in early childhood because of a love of meter and rhyme. As an undergraduate at Oxford she was placing her poetry in university journals. She was one of the few women...

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...

In many ways this novel reflects BP 's undergraduate years at Oxford , featuring characters and episodes based partly on herself, her sister, and her friends or acquaintances. Among these, Henry Harvey and the future...

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...

The story first picks Phippy up in Form II; in Form IV he fails to borrow a dictionary from an aesthete named the Hon. Percy de Selincourt, who in Form V betrays him and precipitates...

The protagonist, James, studied physics at Oxford before embarking on a business career in London and Italy. James is gay, and otherwise unremarkable; the lessons are those that life has taught him since his...

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...

The story is set at Oxford during the second world war, when the university 's number of male students was severely reduced by the military call-up but when, Larkin later maintained, class-distinctions barely registered. This...