Oxford University

This letter (fully titled A Letter to Dr. Holdsworth, occasioned by his Sermon preached before the University of Oxford on Easter-Monday, concerning the resurrection of the same body. In which the passages that concern Mr...

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...

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...

SH gave the first of his lectures as Professor of Poetry at Oxford. It was published the next year by the Clarendon Press as The Redress of Poetry: an Inaugural Lecture delivered before the University of Oxford

She was one of the first women permitted to use the library; Oxford University was still an all-male institution. The essay was reprinted anonymously the same year in the distinguished university journal The Dark Blue...

Her other brother, already at Oxford , was apparently not a very diligent student.

VB 's first novel, The Dark Tide, was published; it drew heavily on her own experiences at post-war Oxford .

Towers in the Mist, the second book in this main series, is set in a different cathedral city, Oxford (more precisely in Christ Church ), during the reign of Elizabeth I , and the...

The last of these returns to the rural labouring class for her protagonist's origins, and follows him as his winning of a scholarship to Oxford (a result of the Butler Education Act of August 1944)...

A diary she kept during her last few weeks as an Oxford undergraduate was, she lated judged, rendered tedious by its starry-eyed, over-romantic enumeration of natural and architectural beauties.

The academic background gives DLS an excuse for lavish literary quotation: from Greek, from Shakespeare and other canonical writers, many of them Elizabethan, and from moderns like Humbert Wolfe . Her Oxford is the preserve...

In following with previous novels, the publication of this one was met with controversy. The hero, born into the working class, finds English society in general and more particularly the University of Oxford hostile to...

The frontispiece depicts Oxford, and the university occupies a prominent position in the book (though JC writes fondly, too, of villages like Peppard Common where she herself lived). Her second sentence proclaims: We who live...

The letters of this correspondence, even more verbally demonstrative than those to her husband, also teem with good advice about diet, exercise, and learning. When her son arrives at university, BLH urges him to read...