Oxford

: This article is about the city of Oxford in England. See also other meanings, including other cities.

Literature in Oxford

Well-known Oxford-based authors include:

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• Lewis Carroll (real name Charles Dodgson), Fellow of Christ Church.
• Colin Dexter who wrote and set his Inspector Morse mystery novels in Oxford.
• Michael Innes (J. I. M. Stewart), of Christ Church.
• C. S. Lewis, Fellow of Magdalen.
• Iris Murdoch, Fellow of St Anne's
• Philip Pullman who was an undergraduate at Exeter.
• J. R. R. Tolkien, Professor of English at Merton.

Many English novels have been set partly or wholly in Oxford. They include:

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• Jude the Obscure (1895) by Thomas Hardy (in which Oxford is thinly disguised as "Christminster").
• Zuleika Dobson (1911) by Max Beerbohm (Merton).
• Gaudy Night (1935) by Dorothy L. Sayers (Somerville).
• Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh (Hertford).

See also the Literature section in the University of Oxford article.

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