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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Elizabeth Elstob | Her letter, addressed to her prebendary uncle, Charles Elstob
, mentions her deference to his judgement, and the favour she has received from both Oxford
and Cambridge Universities
. Female modesty, she says, prevents her... |
Reception | U. A. Fanthorpe | UAF
's poetry was broadcast on the BBC
's Woman's Hour and selected for Poems on the Underground. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1987, a CBE in... |
Publishing | Penelope Fitzgerald | As a child Penelope Knox, together with her brother
produced a family magazine. In 1980 she observed: The stories I wrote at the age of eight and nine did not bring me the success I... |
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 Features | Margaret Forster | Like its rejected predecessor, it is based on recent actual experience. Morag Graham, who comes from an unsophisticated, working-class, northern background, has fixed her schoolgirl dreams and aspirations on entrance to Oxford
; she is... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Antonia Fraser | AF
's father, born Francis Aungier (Frank) Pakenham, was an Oxford
academic whose subject was politics. He became the seventh Earl of Longford
in 1961, but he had already been made Baron Pakenham by Clement Attlee |
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... |
Employer | James Anthony Froude | JAF
initially followed in his brother's footsteps at Oxford
, joining the Oxford Movement, assisting John Henry Newman
with his Lives of the English Saints, and taking orders as a Deacon. |
Reception | André Gide | He received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University
in the same year. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Goudge | The Goudge family moved from Ely to Oxford when EG
's father
became Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University
. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Kate Greenaway | He commented on her work, and encouraged her to improve her style. His two main suggestions were that her art was too ornamental and decorative, and that it was not sufficiently fine and delicate... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Gregory | |
Textual Production | Cicely Hamilton | |
Publishing | Elizabeth Hands | The advertisement for the book in print, like the pre-notification, was carried by Jopson's Coventry Mercury. The volume was dedicated to the dramatist Bertie Greatheed
. It was issued in two forms: ordinary copies... |
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