Lord Peter Wimsey isn’t the only detective to uncover the filthy undercurrents of Oxford academic life. Hilton Soames in Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of Three Students by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Nevertheless, the over-arching moral of the novel seems to be: don’t trust the college staff. Not only this it tense psychological thriller and touching love story, but a proto-feminist philosophical novel.

Harriet Vane comes back to her alma mater of Shrewsbury College (a fictionalized version of Somerville) to discover a budding College scandal, replete with poison pen letters, death threats and vandalism and does everything she can to stop it erupting, with the help of Lord Peter Wimsey himself. The politics of academic life come to play in Dorothy L. Harriet Vane in Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. The Oxford dons fail to notice the mass apocalypse of their students, but Zuleika is off…to Cambridge. All the undergraduates become completely besotted with the femme fatale, even though some of them haven’t actually met her, and decide to throw themselves into the River Isis to prove their love. The ravishing good looks of its eponymous heroine win her a place at the all-male Oxford. Zuleika Dobson in Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohmīeerbohm’s Edwardian satire may share suicide with Jude the Obscure, but that’s where their similarities end. They are also the mere backdrop to his other woes, including incest, religious guilt, infanticide and suicide. The attempts of Jude, a working-class stonemason, to become a scholar at Christminster, an alias for Oxford, are perpetually unfulfilled. But chances are none of us had it as bad as the protagonist of Hardy’s tragic novel. We have all been through the trials of trying to secure that coveted place at Oxford. Jude Fawley in Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy Larkin himself wrote the novel during his time at Oxford so his own university experience informed that of his literary counterpart. Kemp, from a deprived background in Lancashire is thrown into a world of privilege, social awkwardness and thwarted love. Less of a rose-tinted idyll than the Oxford of Brideshead, the university town of this novel is a battlefield, metaphorically and literally (it’s set during WWII). Bullingdon Club escapades, a daily glass of champagne and very little essay writing characterise these two dandies’ Oxford experience…until real life kicks in. Seemingly the only chapter for which this (actually rather long) novel is remembered, Et in Arcadio Ego narrates Charles and Sebastian’s carefree days at Hertford and Christ Church. But what of our fictional friends? Let’s take a look at the well-known literary characters who had their own Oxford experiences.Ĭharles Ryder and Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

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