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Literary Setting Philip Larkin
The story first picks Phippy up in Form II; in Form IV he fails to borrow a dictionary from an aesthete named the Hon. Percy de Selincourt, who in Form V betrays him and precipitates...
Literary Setting Naomi Alderman
The protagonist, James, studied physics at Oxford before embarking on a business career in London and Italy. James is gay, and otherwise unremarkable; the lessons are those that life has taught him since his...
Literary Setting Evelyn Waugh
The viewpoint here is that of the narrator, Charles Ryder, as he looks back nostalgically from his current army milieu to the vanished privilege of an English country house and an Oxford college. Ryder is...
Literary Setting Philip Larkin
The story is set at Oxford during the second world war, when the university 's number of male students was severely reduced by the military call-up but when, Larkin later maintained, class-distinctions barely registered. This...
Material Conditions of Writing Rhoda Broughton
In Belinda, RB is believed to have drawn extensively from her own early negative experience of the closed world of Oxford society. It was in particular believed that she caricatured college head Mark Pattison
Material Conditions of Writing Diana Athill
As a child DA began writing a play in which a cousin was to play the role of the good, blond and slightly insipid princess, while Diana was to be the dark, wicked one.
Athill, Diana. Life Class: The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill. Granta.
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Material Conditions of Writing Helen Waddell
While she was a recently-enrolled graduate student at Oxford in early 1921, HW gave, by invitation, her first course of lectures. In 1926 she did another series of eight lectures on medieval mime. She intended...
Material Conditions of Writing Eleanor Rathbone
This text grew out of the socio-economic research which she had begun in 1896, following her return to Liverpool from Oxford .
Material Conditions of Writing Winifred Holtby
WH began writing this novel, which was originally titled Anlaby Wold, in 1920 while she and Vera Brittain were still students at Oxford .
Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell.
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Material Conditions of Writing Philip Larkin
At OxfordPL embarked, with Kingsley Amis , on a series of wild parodies and travesties, most notably Larkin's Willow Gables series of spoof school stories for girls. He also provided ideas, suggestions, a plot...
Material Conditions of Writing E. J. Scovell
EJS began writing poetry in early childhood because of a love of meter and rhyme.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
As an undergraduate at Oxford she was placing her poetry in university journals. She was one of the few women...
Material Conditions of Writing Kathleen Nott
From early adolescence KN tried to write poetry.
Nott, Kathleen. A Soul in the Quad. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
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This, she felt, was an effort at maturation, using poetry as an attempt . . . to establish the conception of the subjective-real.
Nott, Kathleen. A Soul in the Quad. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
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Material Conditions of Writing Barbara Pym
In many ways this novel reflects BP 's undergraduate years at Oxford , featuring characters and episodes based partly on herself, her sister, and her friends or acquaintances. Among these, Henry Harvey and the future...
Occupation Matthew Arnold
Educated at Oxford , MA was a school inspector from 1851 to 1886 and remained dedicated to the improvement of the English educational system throughout his life. He began publishing first as a poet, but...
Occupation Maude Royden
Through the Rev. Hudson Shaw 's influence as a lecturer at Oxford University 's Extension Summer School , MR became a lecturer in English literature in the Extension Delegacy programme.
Royden, Maude. A Threefold Cord. Victor Gollancz.
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“The Papers of Agnes Maude Royden”. Archives Hub: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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