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Textual Features Florence Dixie
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...
Textual Features Seamus Heaney
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...
Textual Features Iris Murdoch
The novel is technically innovative: Murdoch composes several chapters entirely either of unattributed dialogue (at parties or social gatherings) or of letters which do not constitute a continued correspondence but, like the conversation, a cacophony...
Textual Features Evelyn Waugh
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...
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...
Textual Features Gerard Manley Hopkins
The initial volume included Heaven-Haven and The Habit of Perfection, written while GMH was at Oxford ; The Wreck of the Deutschland, written in 1876; and The Windhover and Pied Beauty, written...
Textual Production Emma Robinson
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...
Textual Production Michèle Roberts
She belonged to the Poetry Society at Oxford , contributed to the student magazine Isis, won a poetry prize from the teenage magazine Honey (for a female-student-voice answer to Christopher Marlowe 's The Passionate...
Textual Production Barbara Pym
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 This material includes unpublished poems, short...
Textual Production Naomi Mitchison
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 .
The Ship. St Anne’s College.
89: 41
Textual Production Gertrude Stein
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 .
Wagner-Martin, Linda. Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family. Rutgers University Press, 1995.
184
They had written on 11 June...
Textual Production Margaret Atwood
This book began as MA 's Clarendon Lectures in English at Oxford .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Elspeth Huxley
They had begun planning such a book after meeting at a Colonial Conference in summer 1941, at Oxford , where Perham was Reader in Colonial Administration. Lord Lugard supplied an introduction.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002.
166, 168
Faber and Faber
Textual Production Alicia D'Anvers
ADA 's satirical poem entitled Academia; or, The Humours of the University of Oxford, went on sale in Oxford.
It is available online from the Women Writers Project , www.wwp.northeastern.edu.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
377
Textual Production Elspeth Huxley
EH 's collection of books about Africa was bought by the University of California at Santa Barbara . She rejected an offer by Boston University for her papers with a claim to have destroyed all...

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