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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...

The full title is Some Testimonies of Learned Men, in Favour of the Intended Edition of the Saxon Homilies, concerning the learning of the author of those homilies; and the advantages to be hoped for...

GMH won the Poetry Prize at Highgate School in 1860, the year he turned sixteen. He was still writing as an undergraduate at Oxford in 1863-7. But when he became a Jesuit in 1868 he...

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...

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...

It was submitted to the Chamberlain as the work of a a young Oxonian: another young male identity, since women could not attend university any more than they could train for the army. The...

BP began keeping a diary in 1931. Her papers are archived at the Bodleian Library , Oxford University . (BP took her degree at St Hilda's College .) This material includes unpublished poems, short...

According to her daughter Lois Godfrey , it appeared in the Journal of Physiology when NM was sixteen and a member of the Society of Home Students (later St Anne's College ) at Oxford University .

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...

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