Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Rose Macaulay | Through correspondence RM
became a life-long friend of Gilbert Murray
, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford
, and Chairman of the Executive of the League of Nations Union
. He was fifteen years her... |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Pym | BP
encountered Lord David Cecil
(Oxford
don, longtime admirer, and one of the two recent rediscoverers of her work) at a media event filmed by the BBC
and aired as Tea With Miss Pym. Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994. 44 |
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 | Rhoda Broughton | The sisters were in general popular in Oxford society, but Rhoda, although at first she dined regularly at the table of scholar Benjamin Jowett
, “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (29 November 1940): 5 |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | P. D. James | |
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, 2000. 145 |
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 | 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 | 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 Setting | Philip Larkin | The story is set at Oxford during the second world war, when the university
's number of male students was severely reduced by the military call-up but when, Larkin later maintained, class-distinctions barely registered. This... |
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