Mike Levy wrote
At Oxford Tolkien was occasionally referred to as the Lord of the
Strings, due to his talent for university politics. He was an arch
conservative who fought long and hard to keep modern literature (and
incidentally most literature by women) out of the curriculum.
Did he ever teach women? I have a stray memory which won't surface properly of
some autobiography or something by a woman who was at Oxford and taught
Anglo-Saxon by him? Robin mentions Barbara Pym seeing him lecture but this
recollection definitely pertains, however mistily, to a tutorial encounter.
Lesley
Lesley_Hall@classic.msn.com
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