Oxford University

One of DA 's aunts had studied at Oxford , become the family bluestocking, and worked as a hospital almoner in London, but had come home when her father died to look after her perfectly...

He was a son of the man of letters Oliver Elton . At the time of his wedding to EJS he was Oxford University 's Reader in Animal Ecology and a Senior Research Fellow of...

DW never names the man, a childhood friend who came back from the Great War with a shattered knee, who broke her heart by failing fully to return the passionate love which developed between them...

The Goudge family moved from Ely to Oxford when EG 's father became Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University .

Their brother Trevenen committed suicide in August 1914, having done (comparatively) badly in exams at Oxford , and fallen in love with a girl who worked as a maid (whom his family regarded as impossible)...

JW 's brothers, Joseph (her elder by two years) and Thomas (her younger by six), each made a name for himself in the literary and academic worlds. Joseph was Headmaster of Winchester College (a public...

STW 's early friendships at Oxford involved young men whom she had known at Harrow, such as David Garnett and sculptor Stephen Tomlin . Throughout her life, she wrote frequent, engaging and witty...

MM 's friends included, in London, a number of scientists or natural philosophers: inventor Robert Hooke (who often visited her, and with whom she discussed dreams), physician and collector Sir Hans Sloane , and scholar...

He commented on her work, and encouraged her to improve her style. His two main suggestions were that her art was too ornamental and decorative, and that it was not sufficiently fine and delicate...

While studying at Oxford , he became a friend of Edward Burne-Jones , who introduced him to an extraordinary group of young men: William Fulford , Charles Faulkner , Cormell Price , and Richard Watson Dixon

In 1969 the poet Roy Fuller , about to lecture on syllabics at Oxford and planning to centre his remarks on Marianne Moore , discovered just in time how important ED 's experiments were in...

She moved to Oxford in order to be close to her friends Janet Wallace (one of her former students) and her husband the Hegelian philosopher and Oxford academic William Wallace . The Wallaces originated from...

Since Tom had gone up to Oxford as an undergraduate in 1825, Anne had been hearing at second hand about his friends, men who in after-times were to influence their generation. It was in...

In her local life, however, MJ felt isolated. On one occasion she told Martha Lovelace (later Beauclerk) that her only friend was a young Student of Oxford—probably not an intellectually stimulating friendship...

In 1868 Mary Augusta Arnold met Mark Pattison , Rector of Lincoln College and a prominent Oxford scholar, and his wife, Emily Francis Pattison , a former art student and connoisseur. Unconventional and bohemian, the...