Oxford University

In this novel Hugh Ludlow, handsome, healthy, and the only son of a rich man, whose fortune he would of course inherit is sent to study with his father's old tutor in rural...

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

A new edition of ADA 's Academia appeared, again anonymously, in response to a recent play: The Humours of Oxford , A Comedy, by a Wadham undergraduate.

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

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...

In 1969 the poet Roy Fuller , about to lecture on syllabics at Oxford and planning to centre his remarks on Marianne Moore , discovered just in time how important ED 's experiments were in...

This, building like so many of her works on her own experiences, reverts to her unhappy time as a student at Oxford . The protagonist is Claire, a college secretary who reflects back in the...

JD received her BA in history from Oxford , after final exams postponed for a year because of a health breakdown.

The title (not the one under which it was first submitted) strikingly anticipates that of Sylvia Plath 's The Bell Jar, 1963, with its image of an invisible barrier separating the protagonist from the...

The first part of Fasting, Feasting, set in a middle-class household in Delhi, focuses on Uma and Aruna struggling with their role as dutiful daughters. Whereas Aruna leaves the family home for a...

FD sets out her own position in her preface: The Author's best and truest friends, with few exceptions, have been and are men. But the Author will never recognise man's glory and welfare in woman's...

Peggy describes her ephemeral admirers with piercing humour and biting sarcasm: for example, Gilbert Mandell, who at thirty-four is twice her age. The son of a deodorant manufacturer, Gilbert deals with his father's publicity by...

SD 's brother James, born in 1672, studied at Oxford and died young in 1700, deeply mourned. She never mentions the other brother, Robert, b. 1673, who became a lawyer and had a large family.

He was admitted while very young to Oxford University (where he did not, however, take his degree) and later to Lincoln's Inn . He was a law student when he wrote most of his love-poetry...

In what critic Carolyn Christensen Nelson considers one of the most humorous of the New Woman novels on marriage to appear during the 1890s,MMD 's first effort at full-length fiction set the stage...