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ASB is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and received an honorary D.Litt. from Oxford University on 20 June 2007. Her official website, www.asbyatt.com/, including comment and a detailed bibliography, became...

After graduating from Oxford , BP lived at home with her parents in Oswestry, not seeking paid work but principally occupied by her writing.

The move, undertaken so that RB might be closer to her publisher, and on the assurance of Matthew Arnold that they would receive a warm welcome, was to provide them with a home for...

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...

High Table is an Oxford University novel, whose protagonist, Theodore Fletcher, grows up a child in a loveless family and feels a sudden, blank dreariness which . . . swamped his mind, when, lying awake...

QDL 's review constitutes a personal and professional attack on Woolf, based primarily on three fronts: education, domesticity, and class. A footnote asserts that Woolf commenting on women's institutional education is voicing an opinion on...

They wanted, they said, to build up and develop in the very heart of the British Empire the opportunities offered to all women students of all nations. Apparently they were thinking...

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...

Between poems and letters come essays, of which the first contains a fantasy in which a woman studies in the Bodleian Library and gets an honorary degree from Oxford University .

Her speeches in general are models of grand and persuasive rhetoric; they are designed to inspire patriotism and loyalty, while refusing to be pinned down on policy detail. Elizabeth's frequent references to her gender combine...

Arriving in Israel just after a Jewish terrorist attackCM reports how she found the streets of Jerusalem full of tense, trigger-happy young British soldiers. Gershon Agronsky , editor of the Palestine Post,

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...

Let Me Alone is the book which introduces the orphan protagonist Anna Kavan, whose name the author later adopted as her persona. This novel of feminist protest is considered autobiographical, since Kavan's Aunt Lauretta is...

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...

In these lectures SH again concerned himself closely with the poet's obligations to society and to humankind. The first lecture, from which the 1995 volume is titled, sets out to show how poetry's existence at...