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List of fictional Oxford colleges

List of fictional Oxford colleges

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Fictional colleges are found in many modern novels, films, and other works of fiction, probably because they allow the author greater licence for invention and a reduced risk of being accused of libel, as might happen if the author depicted unsavory events as occurring at a real-life institution. Below is a list of some of the fictional colleges of the University of Oxford.

Not to be confused with Oxbridge colleges.

His Dark Materials

Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials novels feature a number of fictional Oxford colleges, most notably Jordan College,[1][2] including:[citation needed]

  • Broadgates Hall College
  • Cardinal's College
  • Foxe College
  • Gabriel College
  • Jordan College
  • Queen Philippa's College
  • St Michael's College
  • St Scholastica's College
  • St Sophia's College
  • Wordsworth College
  • Wykeham College

Inspector Morse

The Inspector Morse series of books by Colin Dexter is predominantly set within Oxford and its environs, including the University. Consequently, many fictional colleges are named. The derived television series, Inspector Morse, Lewis and Endeavour, continued this practice.

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Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure is set in Christminster, "Wessex", a thinly fictionalised version of Oxford, and mentions the following colleges of Christminster University:[3][4][5]

Loss and Gain

Loss and Gain by St John Henry Newman tells the story of the conversion of Charles Reding, an Oxford student, to Catholicism. In the novel, Newman creates the following colleges:

  • Saint Saviour's (the college of the main character, Charles Reding)
  • All Saints
  • Leicester College
  • Nun's Hall

Other works

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References

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    "A 'His Dark Materials' guide to Oxford". House & Garden. 8 October 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
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    "Pullman brings back Lyra for Oxford mystery". The Guardian. 5 April 2003. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
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    Booth, James (2014) [1895]. "An Exploration of Hardy's Christminster and Larkin's Oxford". The Hardy Society Journal. 10 (2): 92–100. ISSN 1746-4617. JSTOR 48562198.
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    Hardy, Thomas (August 1994). Jude the Obscure. Gutenberg.org. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
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    Pinion, F. B. (1968). "Dictionary of People and Places in Hardy's Works". A Hardy Companion. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 278–280. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-00481-2_12. ISBN 978-1-349-00481-2.
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    Hardy 1994 Part 2 Chapter 6
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    Hardy 1994 Part 6 Chapter 9
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    Hardy 1994 Part 6 Chapter 11
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    St Hilda's College History Archived 2010-10-31 at the Wayback Machine, st-hildas.ox.ac.uk
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    Motion, Andrew (1993). Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life. London: Faber and Faber. pp. 93–96.
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    Page, William, ed. (1907). "Colleges: St George, Oxford". A History of the County of Oxford. Victoria County History. Vol. 2. London. pp. 160–161. Retrieved 8 January 2019 – via British History Online.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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    Somerville Stories – Dorothy L Sayers Archived 5 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Somerville College, University of Oxford, UK.
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