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MW received an Oxford BA in Modern Languages (French and Italian) from Lady Margaret Hall ; following this she received her MA as well.

Her father, a Protestant, called Catholicism a good religion for a girl. From domestic activities with her Italian mother and maids in what she terms the basement world of female secrets, she learned about...

MW began her career as a journalist while at Oxford , editing the University magazine Isis; she then freelanced for many journals and newspapers, including Vogue. She also worked in radio broadcasting from...

JW 's brothers, Joseph (her elder by two years) and Thomas (her younger by six), each made a name for himself in the literary and academic worlds. Joseph was Headmaster of Winchester College (a public...

Its young male protagonist, recently an Oxford undergraduate, is enabled by his stupid attempt at suicide to achieve a brief, exalted feeling of being poised between life and death. The technique is experimental, drawing on...

Its working title was Untoward Incidents. It was rejected as obscene by Duckworth before Waugh turned to his father's firm. It is dedicated in Homage and Affection to EW 's Oxford friend and mentor Harold Acton .

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...

The viewpoint here is that of the narrator, Charles Ryder, as he looks back nostalgically from his current army milieu to the vanished privilege of an English country house and an Oxford college. Ryder is...

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...

JW attended Accrington Girls' Grammar School, then Accrington College of Further Education. Although she first failed the Oxford University entrance exams, she travelled to meet with the authorities and persuaded them to give her a...

Katharine Marion Metcalfe , a recent graduate at Oxford University , did something extraordinary in enquiring of Professor Sir Walter Raleigh whether materials existed for research on MW . Raleigh proposed that Metcalfe should edit Jane Austen instead.

A subscription was raised at Winchester School to found a scholarship in honour of CY , to take boys from the school on to Oxford or Cambridge .