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Travel | W. H. Auden | After spending time in Germany (and briefly in Britain) in 1945, WHA
continued to live in New York with summers from 1948 to 1957 on the Italian island of Ischia. In 1958 he... |
Textual Production | Barbara Pym | BP
's other juvenilia include poems and short stories published in the literary magazine at her boarding school, Liverpool College
: The Sad Story of Alphonse, Henry Shakespeare, Adolphe, Satire (an imitation... |
Textual Features | Jan Morris | Here Hitler
has made Oxford his British capital (as historically he intended to do), with his headquarters at Christ Church
(James Morris's old... |
Performance of text | T. S. Eliot | T. S. Eliot
's Murder in the Cathedral, given at Christ Church
, was the first student production at Oxford in which women undergraduates were allowed to perform together with men. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins. 91 |
Occupation | Lewis Carroll | Under his pseudonym, LC
published a poem in the periodical The Train in 1856. In 1861, he was ordained a deacon but decided not to enter the clergy because of his stammer. He remained at... |
Literary Setting | Elizabeth Goudge | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dora Carrington | DC
was fondest of two of her brothers: Teddy
, who was killed in World War I, and Noel
, curator of the 1978 exhibit of Carrington's work at the Picture Gallery of Christ Church |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lewis Carroll | Alice Liddell
, whom Dodgson met as the small daughter of the Dean of Christ Church
, H. G. Liddell
, was one of a large circle of Oxford colleagues and their families, but for... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Godley | John Godley, who was a friend of Charlotte's brother Charles
, was born in Ireland on 29 May 1814, most likely at Dublin. He was the son of an Irish landowner, whose family home... |
Education | John Locke | He attended Westminster School
and Christ Church, Oxford
. His studies branched out in various directions from the conventional curriculum, notably into natural philosophy or what is now called the sciences. |
Education | Jan Morris | JM
, married and twenty-three years old, began reading for a BA in English Literature at Christ Church, Oxford
. Morris graduated after only two years with Class II Honours. Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber. 7 |
Education | Jan Morris | After a local primary school Morris attended, from nine years old, the choir school of Christ Church Cathedral
in Oxford. This very small, specialist community provided an adequate general education Morris, Jan. Conundrum. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich . 12-13 |
Education | Thomas Otway | He attended, briefly, Winchester College
and Christ Church, Oxford
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | John Ruskin | He went up to Christ Church, Oxford
, in January 1837. His performance was not particularly distinguished, apart from winning the Newdigate Prize for poetry. His graduation was delayed when, in April 1840, he had... |
Education | Sir Philip Sidney | He was educated at Shrewsbury School
and then (from the age of thirteen) at Christ Church, Oxford
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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