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According to her daughter Lois Godfrey , it appeared in the Journal of Physiology when NM was sixteen and a member of the Society of Home Students (later St Anne's College ) at Oxford University .

While living first in Exeter and then in Gloucester, EM organized evening lectures for women, a cause into which she threw herself heart and soul. (In Exeter she also visited the women's penitentiary...

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...

HM already features in critical surveys of the modern British novel, such as that by Nick Rennison , 2004. A. S. Byatt discusses her (among writers of both sexes including predecessors Elizabeth Bowen and Muriel Spark

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...

Arriving in Israel just after a Jewish terrorist attack CM reports how she found the streets of Jerusalem full of tense, trigger-happy young British soldiers. Gershon Agronsky , editor of the Palestine Post,

Through correspondence RM became a life-long friend of Gilbert Murray , Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford , and Chairman of the Executive of the League of Nations Union . He was fifteen years her...

She used the firm of John Murray , who remained her regular publisher until 1912. Biographer Sarah Lefanu believes that she worked off in this novel some of her turbulent emotions about the close...

During play he was hit by a ball which may have been partly responsible for his sudden illness. On the day of his funeral, play was suspended for a few minutes in his honour during...

QDL 's review constitutes a personal and professional attack on Woolf, based primarily on three fronts: education, domesticity, and class. A footnote asserts that Woolf commenting on women's institutional education is voicing an opinion on...

In July 1954, Ralph, after taking a First at Oxford in musicology, quarrelled with QDL over his future plans and they became permanently estranged.

ML grew up in a liberal, Jewish family of high-level professionals. Her maternal grandfather had been banished from Romania in 1885 and made his new home in England. ML described her childhood religious belief in...

As a little girl ML attended Ladybarn House School in Manchester, which had been founded in 1873 as a pioneering institution following the educational ideals of Pestalozzi and Froebel . This was part of...

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...

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...