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Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Elstob | 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... |
Friends, Associates | William Morris | 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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ruth Padel | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Antonia Fraser | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Alicia D'Anvers | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Pym | While at boarding school and Oxford
, BP
was heavily influenced by the novels of Aldous Huxley
, whose books inspired her to become a writer. In this she resembles an otherwise entirely different writer,... |
Leisure and Society | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | 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... |
Literary responses | Ruth Padel | 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... |
Literary responses | Doreen Wallace | 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. Shepherd, June. Doreen Wallace, 1897-1989: Writer and Social Campaigner. Edwin Mellen Press. 145 |
Literary responses | Margaret Kennedy | 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... |
Literary responses | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | 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... |
Literary responses | P. D. James | |
Literary Setting | Isabella Neil Harwood | 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... |
Literary Setting | Doreen Wallace | 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... |
Literary Setting | Dorothy L. Sayers | 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... |
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