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Wealth and Poverty | Frances Reynolds | |
Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Elstob | She got as far as renting a house for her school, but it seems that events then overtook her. Since her edition had failed, she had to refund money put up by subscribers, and once... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Joanna Cannan | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Winifred Peck | 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. Peck, Winifred. A Little Learning; or, A Victorian Childhood. Faber and Faber. 154 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Doreen Wallace | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dorothy L. Sayers | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Goudge | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dervla Murphy | DM
romanticised somewhat when she wrote that Oxford Universityseems strangely un-British. Her point was that it dated back well before the Empire and was concerned with things not of power but of the spirit. Murphy, Dervla. Wheels within Wheels. J. Murray. 179 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Thomas Hardy | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Brilliana, Lady Harley | 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... |
Textual Production | Rosita Forbes | In her third novel, A Fool's Hell, RF
focussed centrally not on her young English Mike Treherne or Leila Grant, but on an Egyptian, Kamel Bey Riddha, who studied with Mike at Oxford University
. “New Books and Reprints. Fiction”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1138, p. 753. 753 |
Textual Production | Anne Mozley | 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... |
Textual Production | Seamus Heaney | 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 |
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 | Marina Warner | The book emerged from the Clarendon Lectures given at Oxford
in 2001. Jays, David. “Forever changes”. The Observer. |