Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Textual Production | Percy Bysshe Shelley | |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Elstob | The full title is Some Testimonies of Learned Men, in Favour of the Intended Edition of the Saxon Homilies, concerning the learning of the author of those homilies; and the advantages to be hoped for... |
Textual Production | Gerard Manley Hopkins | 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... |
Textual Production | Evelyn Waugh | Waugh had begun keeping a diary as an adolescent, but he evidently destroyed those parts that covered his years at Oxford
. Also missing from the extant diary are any account of the end of... |
Textual Production | Doreen Wallace | DW
's first published novel, A Little Learning (titled from Alexander Pope
), satirically depicts both the all-female world of an Oxford
women's college and the world beyond the college walls, heterosexual but restrictive for... |
Textual Production | Emma Robinson | It was submitted to the Chamberlain as the work of a a young Oxonian: another young male identity, since women could not attend university any more than they could train for the army. The... |
Textual Production | Michèle Roberts | 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... |
Textual Production | Barbara Pym | BP
began keeping a diary in 1931. Her papers are archived at the Bodleian Library
, Oxford University
. (BP
took her degree at St Hilda's College
.) This material includes unpublished poems, short... |
Textual Production | Naomi Mitchison | 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
. The Ship. St Anne’s College. 89: 41 |
Textual Production | Gertrude Stein | 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
. Wagner-Martin, Linda. Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family. Rutgers University Press, 1995. 184 |
Textual Production | Margaret Atwood | |
Textual Production | Iris Murdoch | 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... |
Textual Production | Elspeth Huxley | They had begun planning such a book after meeting at a Colonial Conference in summer 1941, at Oxford
, where Perham was Reader in Colonial Administration. Lord Lugard
supplied an introduction. Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002. 166, 168 |
Textual Production | Elspeth Huxley | EH
's collection of books about Africa was bought by the University of California at Santa Barbara
. She rejected an offer by Boston University for her papers with a claim to have destroyed all... |
Textual Production | Alicia D'Anvers | ADA
's satirical poem entitled Academia; or, The Humours of the University of Oxford, went on sale in Oxford. It is available online from the Women Writers Project
, www.wwp.northeastern.edu. Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988. 377 |
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