Oxford University

The book emerged from the Clarendon Lectures given at Oxford in 2001.

ADA mocked the university again in another satire, The Oxford -Act: A Poem.

Her historical importance has been recognised by two recent biographies, those of Janet Wallach , 1996 (Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell, Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia)...

In 1981, Ananda Publishers of Calcutta issued KKD 's autobiographical sketches written in Bengali, Nari, Nogori. Here KKD remembers her undergraduate years at Oxford . She especially focuses on her friendships with Eastern Europeans...

This letter (fully titled A Letter to Dr. Holdsworth, occasioned by his Sermon preached before the University of Oxford on Easter-Monday, concerning the resurrection of the same body. In which the passages that concern Mr...

Through winning scholarships, this boy, Hilary Burde (the novel's narrator), eventually becomes a Fellow at an Oxford college. He loses his position because of a disastrous affair with a colleague's wife which results in her...

AM readied for publication—that is, for practical purposes, edited—a series of the works of her younger brother, J. B. Mozley , Professor of Theology at Oxford . She is remembered as the posthumous editor of...

SH gave the first of his lectures as Professor of Poetry at Oxford. It was published the next year by the Clarendon Press as The Redress of Poetry: an Inaugural Lecture delivered before the University of Oxford

She used the firm of John Murray , who remained her regular publisher until 1912. Biographer Sarah Lefanu believes that she worked off in this novel some of her turbulent emotions about the close...

VB 's first novel, The Dark Tide, was published; it drew heavily on her own experiences at post-war Oxford .

She was one of the first women permitted to use the library; Oxford University was still an all-male institution. The essay was reprinted anonymously the same year in the distinguished university journal The Dark Blue...

Her other brother, already at Oxford , was apparently not a very diligent student.

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...

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...

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...