Oxford University

ADA 's satirical poem entitled Academia; or, The Humours of the University of Oxford, went on sale in Oxford.

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...

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...

Edith Sitwell had hosted a tea for GS when she came to lecture at Cambridge and Oxford earlier that year; in attendance were Leonard and Virginia Woolf . They had written on 11 June...

ADA mocked the university again in another satire, The Oxford -Act: A Poem.

KKD began translating from Bengali to English in the 1960s, while she was still studying at Oxford . In 1964 her first translation was published in Poetry Ireland: a poem by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore

Her historical importance has been recognised by two recent biographies, those of Janet Wallach , 1996 (Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell, Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia)...

GMH won the Poetry Prize at Highgate School in 1860, the year he turned sixteen. He was still writing as an undergraduate at Oxford in 1863-7. But when he became a Jesuit in 1868 he...

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...

In 1981, Ananda Publishers of Calcutta issued KKD 's autobiographical sketches written in Bengali, Nari, Nogori. Here KKD remembers her undergraduate years at Oxford . She especially focuses on her friendships with Eastern Europeans...

DLS 's interest in translating began during her years at Oxford . Her financial success as detective novelist allowed her to return to it later in her career, as with her version of The Song...

She belonged to the Poetry Society at Oxford , contributed to the student magazine Isis, won a poetry prize from the teenage magazine Honey (for a female-student-voice answer to Christopher Marlowe 's The Passionate...

Her speeches in general are models of grand and persuasive rhetoric; they are designed to inspire patriotism and loyalty, while refusing to be pinned down on policy detail. Elizabeth's frequent references to her gender combine...

The first part of Fasting, Feasting, set in a middle-class household in Delhi, focuses on Uma and Aruna struggling with their role as dutiful daughters. Whereas Aruna leaves the family home for a...

FD sets out her own position in her preface: The Author's best and truest friends, with few exceptions, have been and are men. But the Author will never recognise man's glory and welfare in woman's...