Oxford University

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 .

MM 's friends included, in London, a number of scientists or natural philosophers: inventor Robert Hooke (who often visited her, and with whom she discussed dreams), physician and collector Sir Hans Sloane , and scholar...

While still at Oxford , WM began writing poetry with great dedication. He eventually published poems, stories, articles, and a single review (of Robert Browning 's Men and Women) in the periodical he produced...

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

Again the subject is an unhappy marriage, in which the wife is plaintive and neurotic and the dislikeable husband is (as a change from the law) a dentist. The work was remarkable for its...

AM 's brother Thomas Mozley (three years older than Anne and the first of three brothers in the family to attend Oxford University ) became a clergyman, religious controversialist, and journalist. He was a vital...

AM 's brother James Bowling Mozley (four years younger than she was) became a clergyman, a well-known preacher, and the Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford . He was a shy man who relied on...

Since Tom had gone up to Oxford as an undergraduate in 1825, Anne had been hearing at second hand about his friends, men who in after-times were to influence their generation. It was in...

AM readied for publication—that is, for practical purposes, edited—a series of the works of her younger brother, J. B. Mozley , Professor of Theology at Oxford . She is remembered as the posthumous editor of...

Through winning scholarships, this boy, Hilary Burde (the novel's narrator), eventually becomes a Fellow at an Oxford college. He loses his position because of a disastrous affair with a colleague's wife which results in her...

Other honours in 1987 included being made a Companion of Literature, and receiving an Honorary DLitt from Oxford University . Cambridge University awarded her a Honorary LittD in 1993. She received Honorary Fellowships from St Anne's College, Oxford

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

At the same time as applying for her place at Newnham, she kept her options open by applying for a lectureship at Sheffield University and a place at Vassar in New York State, as...

IM wrote poetry all her life. At the end of her first term at Badminton , the school magazine carried her Fate of the Daisy Lee, a ballad about a sea-captain wrecked on the...

The novel is technically innovative: Murdoch composes several chapters entirely either of unattributed dialogue (at parties or social gatherings) or of letters which do not constitute a continued correspondence but, like the conversation, a cacophony...