Oxford University

PBS published his pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism, for which on this date he was sent down (i.e. expelled) from Oxford .

The year after the Oxford women's colleges finally reached fully equal status with the men's, VB published The Women at Oxford , A Fragment of History.

IM wrote poetry all her life. At the end of her first term at Badminton , the school magazine carried her Fate of the Daisy Lee, a ballad about a sea-captain wrecked on the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

DM romanticised somewhat when she wrote that Oxford Universityseems strangely un-British. Her point was that it dated back well before the Empire and was concerned with things not of power but of the spirit.

The last of these returns to the rural labouring class for her protagonist's origins, and follows him as his winning of a scholarship to Oxford (a result of the Butler Education Act of August 1944)...

The academic background gives DLS an excuse for lavish literary quotation: from Greek, from Shakespeare and other canonical writers, many of them Elizabethan, and from moderns like Humbert Wolfe . Her Oxford is the preserve...

A diary she kept during her last few weeks as an Oxford undergraduate was, she lated judged, rendered tedious by its starry-eyed, over-romantic enumeration of natural and architectural beauties.

The frontispiece depicts Oxford, and the university occupies a prominent position in the book (though JC writes fondly, too, of villages like Peppard Common where she herself lived). Her second sentence proclaims: We who live...

In following with previous novels, the publication of this one was met with controversy. The hero, born into the working class, finds English society in general and more particularly the University of Oxford hostile to...