List of Books About Oxford - Timeline

Timeline

1850s
  • The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green (Cuthbert M. Bede, in three parts: 1850s)
1860s
  • The Old Parish Church: with the Ghost of Merton Hall (John Gibbs, 1861)
  • Tom Brown at Oxford (Thomas Hughes, 1861)
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll, 1865)
1870s
  • Through the Looking-Glass (Lewis Carroll, 1871)
  • Cripps the Carrier (Richard Doddridge Blackmore, 1876) — author of Lorna Doone
1880s
  • Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K. Jerome, 1889) — a journey from Kingston to Oxford on the River Thames
1890s
  • A Young Oxford Maid (Sarah Tytler, 1890)
  • Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy, 1895) — Oxford is called "Christminster"
1900s
  • A Clerk of Oxford (E. Everett-Green, 1900)
  • Red Paint at Oxford ("Pish" and "Tush", 1904)
  • The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame, 1908) — Grahame is buried in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford
  • With the King at Oxford: A Tale of the Great Rebellion (Rev. Alfred J. Church, 1909)
1910s
  • Zuleika Dobson (Max Beerbohm, 1911)
1920s
  • The Charm of Oxford (Joseph Wells, 1920) — Warden of Wadham College, Oxford
1930s
  • A Storm in Oxford (E. Tangye Lean, 1932)
  • Gaudy Night (Dorothy L. Sayers, 1935)
  • Death at the President's Lodgings (Michael Innes, 1936)
  • The Hobbit (J. R. R. Tolkien, 1937) — written at 20 Northmoor Road, North Oxford
  • An Oxford University Chest (John Betjeman, 1938)
  • Towers in the Mist (Elizabeth Goudge, 1938)
1940s
  • The Case of the Gilded Fly (Edmund Crispin, 1944)
  • The Silent Traveller in Oxford (Chiang Yee, 1944)
  • Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh, 1945)
  • Folly Bridge: A Romantic Tale (David Leslie Murray, 1945)
  • Jill (Philip Larkin, 1946)
  • The Moving Toyshop (Edmund Crispin, 1946)
1950s
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis, 1950) — first book in The Chronicles of Narnia series
  • Fred of Oxford (Fred Bickerton, 1953)
  • The Lord of the Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien, three volumes: 1954–55) — mostly written at 20 Northmoor Road; see also film trilogy
  • Landscape with Dead Dons (Robert Robinson, 1956)
  • Oxford Folly (Louis McIntosh, 1956)
1960s
  • Summoned by Bells (John Betjeman, 1960)
  • Dame's Delight (Margaret Forster, 1964)
  • Accident (Nicholas Mosley), 1965
  • The Game (A. S. Byatt, 1967)
1970s
  • Last Boat to Folly Bridge (Eric C. Hiscock, 1970)
  • The House in Norham Gardens (Penelope Lively, 1974) — set in Norham Gardens, North Oxford
  • A Staircase in Surrey (J. I. M. Stewart, 1974–78) — a five novel series
  • Last Bus to Woodstock (Colin Dexter, 1977) — first book in the Inspector Morse series
1980s
  • The Alchemists (Margaret Doody, 1980)
  • Death of a Don (Howard Shaw, 1981)
  • The Book and the Brotherhood (Iris Murdoch, 1983)
  • Oxford Blood (Antonia Fraser, 1985)
  • Where the Rivers Meet (John Wain, 1988)
1990s
  • Dirty Tricks (Michael Dibdin, 1991)
  • The Children of Men (P. D. James, 1992)
  • Doomsday Book (Connie Willis, 1992)
  • The Men and the Girls (Joanna Trollope, 1992)
  • Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years (Sue Townsend, 1993)
  • You'll Never Be Here again (Mark Blackaby, 1993)
  • Dancing to the Pipers (Kate Fenton, 1993)
  • Juggling (Barbara Trapido, 1994)
  • Oxford Exit (Veronica Stallwood, 1994)
  • His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman, trilogy: 1995, 1997, 2000)
  • Dangerous Games (Jodie Sinclair, 1997)
  • The Devil's Hunt (Paul Doherty, 1997)
  • An Instance of the Fingerpost (Iain Pears, 1997)
  • The Poison Tree (Tony Strong, 1997)
  • To Say Nothing of the Dog (Connie Willis, 1997)
  • The Greatest Sorrow (Keith Ovenden, 1998)
  • The Travelling Hornplayer (Barbara Trapido, 1998)
  • The Significance of Bluebells (Cilla Lancelyn Green, 1999)
  • Oxford Shift (Veronica Stallwood, 1999)
2000s
  • The Remorseful Day (Colin Dexter, 2000) — last book in the Inspector Morse series
  • Oxford Shadows (Veronica Stallwood, 2001)
  • Another Kind of Cinderella (Angela Huth, 2002)
  • Any Human Heart (William Boyd, 2002)
  • Bleak Midwinter (Peter Millar, 2002)
  • Lyra's Oxford (Philip Pullman, 2003)
  • The Oxford Murders (Guillermo Martínez, 2003) — also a 2008 film
  • Restless (William Boyd, 2006)
  • A Death in Oxford (Richard MacAndrew, 2007)
  • The September Society (Charles Finch, 2008)
2010s
  • The Lessons (Naomi Alderman, 2010)
  • The Oxford Virus (Adam Kolczynski, 2010)

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