Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton, 1976.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Birth | Carola Oman | She was christened in the chapel of All Souls College
, in the largest available punch-bowl. Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton, 1976. 52 |
Employer | Marina Warner | In 1994 MW
took a position teaching creative writing in the department of literature, film and theatre studies at the University of Essex
. This was a new experience for her, though she had already... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Carola Oman | CO
's father, Charles Oman
, said that his early life had been most unhappy. Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton, 1976. 35 Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton, 1976. 38-9 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Blackwood | Having obtained a divorce in Santo Domingo, CB
married the US poet Robert Lowell
, whom she had met (as husband of Elizabeth Hardwick
) in 1966; their affair began while he was a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Freke | EF
's father, Ralph Freke of Hannington in Wiltshire, a lawyer and previously a Fellow of All Souls College
, Oxford, was fifty at his marriage. When Elizabeth married against his wishes he... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Lady Norton | FLN
's father, Ralph Freke of Hannington in Wiltshire, a lawyer and previously a Fellow of All Souls' College
, Oxford, was fifty at his marriage. He died on 24 April 1684. Freke, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Remembrances of Elizabeth Freke, 1671-1714, edited by Raymond A. Anselment, Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2001, pp. 1-36. 11 |
Occupation | John Norris | He became a Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford
, and later, after he married, a country clergyman. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Reception | Marina Warner | She was taken aback when she was invited to a dinner at All Souls College
, Oxford, and her professorship at Rotterdam was contemptuously dismissed by an ex-diplomat also present. To her, the incident was... |
Reception | Marina Warner | 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... |
Textual Features | Margaret Oliphant | Carlingford was the first English setting in MO
's fiction, apart from London. In inventing it she was following the precedent of Trollope
's Barsetshire. Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995. 198 |
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