Literary Oxford 

 

I offer two-hour or half-day tours of Oxford’s magnificent literary heritage, in English and French. We’ll visit the colleges where they studied or taught, the places which inspired them and the pubs where they met to discuss their works.

Writers of all kinds developed their talent at Oxford over the centuries, from novelists and playwrights to poets, historians and philosophers. Some like Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkein and Lewis Carroll, creator of Alice in Wonderland, were pioneers of literary genres; others such as poets Percy Bysse Shelley, T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden were giants in their own field. Oscar Wilde, John Betjeman and C.S. Lewis were associated with Magdalen College; Graham Greene and Anthony Powell with Balliol and Philip Pullman with Exeter. Evelyn Waugh, who studied at Hertford, encapsulated his experience of Oxford between the wars in `Brideshead Revisited.’ Iris Murdoch, Ian McEwan and Dorothy L. Sayers are all linked to the city, as are crime writers Colin Dexter and Val McDermid.

 

Please sign up for one of my tours and I’ll be happy to adapt to any requests. 

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