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.

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...

KKD began translating from Bengali to English in the 1960s, while she was still studying at Oxford . In 1964 her first translation was published in Poetry Ireland: a poem by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore

DLS 's interest in translating began during her years at Oxford . Her financial success as detective novelist allowed her to return to it later in her career, as with her version of The Song...

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...

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...

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)...

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 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...

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...

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.