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After graduating from Oxford , BP lived at home with her parents in Oswestry, not seeking paid work but principally occupied by her writing.

The move, undertaken so that RB might be closer to her publisher, and on the assurance of Matthew Arnold that they would receive a warm welcome, was to provide them with a home for...

Despite all this, by the Renaissance enough survived for two leading Italian critics, Longinus and Dionysios of Halikarnassos , each to quote at full length a poem of Sappho 's, which they thereby preserved. Other...

Subsequently, Warner has been a Visiting Fellow at the British Film Institute (1992), Trinity College, Cambridge (1998), the Humanities Research Centre, Warwick University (1999), Stanford University (2000), and All Souls College , Oxford (2001). She...

ASB is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and received an honorary D.Litt. from Oxford University on 20 June 2007. Her official website, www.asbyatt.com/, including comment and a detailed bibliography, became...

Mary Chandler responded with praise of MB 's Lines with Wit and Humour fraught, / Pure as her Morals, sprightly as her Thought. Another English fellow-poet, Mary Jones (to whom Barber's Poems were lent...

HM already features in critical surveys of the modern British novel, such as that by Nick Rennison , 2004. A. S. Byatt discusses her (among writers of both sexes including predecessors Elizabeth Bowen and Muriel Spark

He received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University in the same year.

EB was awarded a CBE in 1948, and received two honorary degrees: from Trinity College , Dublin, in 1949 and from Oxford University in 1956.

Other honours in 1987 included being made a Companion of Literature, and receiving an Honorary DLitt from Oxford University . Cambridge University awarded her a Honorary LittD in 1993. She received Honorary Fellowships from St Anne's College, Oxford

KKD feels strongly that the difficulty she has faced in attracting an English-speaking audience and commanding the attention of English-speaking critics is related to her ethnicity and bilingualism. Most of the slender English criticism of...

NM was made an Honorary Fellow of her old college, St Anne's , Oxford .

This tract had the result of getting the Tract s banned. Tutors at Oxford wrote to demand the author's resignation, principals of colleges drew up a manifesto against it, and the university's Hebdomadal Board condemned it.

At St John's College, Cambridge , for instance, there flourished an Amanda Ros Club, whose members amused themselves by trying to write in the Amanda style. Another such organisation, the Amanda Ros Society, formed...

Katharine Marion Metcalfe , a recent graduate at Oxford University , did something extraordinary in enquiring of Professor Sir Walter Raleigh whether materials existed for research on MW . Raleigh proposed that Metcalfe should edit Jane Austen instead.