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Zuleika Dobson, full title Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story, is the only novel by English essayist Max Beerbohm, a satire of undergraduate life at Oxford published in 1911. It includes the famous line "Death cancels all engagements" and presents a corrosive view of Edwardian Oxford. [1]
Beerbohm was educated at Charterhouse School and Merton College, Oxford, from 1890, where he was Secretary of the Myrmidon Club. It was at school that he began writing. While at Oxford Beerbohm became acquainted with Oscar Wilde and his circle through his half-brother, Herbert Beerbohm Tree.
Written while still an undergraduate at Merton College, Oxford, Beerbohm intended that his essay "A Peep into the Past", a satire on Oscar Wilde, should be published in the first number of The Yellow Book, but it was held over to make way for another essay, "A Defence of Cosmetics", which appeared in that journal in April 1894. "A Peep into the ...
Named after Geoffrey Chaucer, whose son Thomas also managed the affairs of Henry Beaufort, Oxford's Chancellor. Courtenay College: Inspector Morse T: Based on Oriel. Nuneham Courtenay is a village 5 miles south-east of Oxford; in the 14th century, the village belonged to the influential Courtenay family. Nuneham House now belongs to the University.
The Works of Max Beerbohm was the first book published by English caricaturist, essayist and parodist Max Beerbohm.It was published in 1896 when Beerbohm was aged 24. A collection of Beerbohm's essays from the 1890s written while he was still a student at Oxford and which had originally been printed in The Yellow Book, The Savoy, The Pageant, The Chap Book, and other notable periodicals, the ...
The Myrmidon Club is a dining club elected from the members of Merton College, Oxford, and with a continuous history exceeding 150 years.Until recently, the club was single-sex, and an equivalent club for women, named the Myrmaids, was established following the college's decision to admit women students in 1980.
Max Beerbohm was a member (and Hon. Secretary), and the club called "The Junta" that features in his Oxford novel Zuleika Dobson is probably modelled on the Myrmidons. Other former members include Lord Randolph Churchill and Andrew Irvine .
In Max Beerbohm's satirical tragedy of undergraduate life at Oxford, Zuleika Dobson (1911), the hero Duke of Dorset [19] was awarded, amongst others, the Stanhope: . At Eton he had been called "Peacock", and this nick-name had followed him up to Oxford.