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This book began as MA 's Clarendon Lectures in English at Oxford .

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 .

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...

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

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...

The book emerged from the Clarendon Lectures given at Oxford in 2001.

ADA 's satirical poem entitled Academia; or, The Humours of the University of Oxford, went on sale in Oxford.

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...

IM wrote poetry all her life. At the end of her first term at Badminton , the school magazine carried her Fate of the Daisy Lee, a ballad about a sea-captain wrecked on the...

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 . They had written on 11 June...

ADA mocked the university again in another satire, The Oxford -Act: A Poem.

KKD began translating from Bengali to English in the 1960s, while she was still studying at Oxford . In 1964 her first translation was published in Poetry Ireland: a poem by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore

The novel is technically innovative: Murdoch composes several chapters entirely either of unattributed dialogue (at parties or social gatherings) or of letters which do not constitute a continued correspondence but, like the conversation, a cacophony...

The initial volume included Heaven-Haven and The Habit of Perfection, written while GMH was at Oxford ; The Wreck of the Deutschland, written in 1876; and The Windhover and Pied Beauty, written...

The man who emerges as the white protagonist of the story, Basil Seal, is in trouble with his feckless, privileged circle at home, fed up and wanting to get away, when he is invited to...