Oxford (Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street)

The University of Oxford is the oldest univeristy in the English-speaking world, and considered one of the most prestigious. October 1920 is when women first became fully eligible to take degrees from Oxford as full members of the university. In Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street" (1923), one of her friends attended Oxford: "dear old Hugh, thought Mrs Dalloway, remembering with amusement, with gratitude, with emotion, how shy, like a brother—one would rather die than speak to one's brother—Hugh had always been, when he was at Oxford, and came over...".