Editing Oxford (section)

===Literature and film===
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{{Main|Literature in Oxford|List of films shot in Oxford|List of fictional Oxford colleges}}
The city hosts the annual [[Oxford Literary Festival]] each Spring. Well-known Oxford-based authors include:
* [[Brian Aldiss]] (1925–2017), science fiction novelist, lived in Oxford.<ref name="oxfordmail.co.uk">{{cite web | url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/19010791.colin-dexter-brian-aldiss-added-oxford-dictionary-national-biography/ | title=Oxford authors Colin Dexter and Brian Aldiss added to biography dictionary | date=14 January 2021 }}</ref>
* [[Vera Brittain]] (1893–1970), undergraduate at [[Somerville College, Oxford|Somerville]].
* [[John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir]] (1875–1940), attended [[Brasenose College, Oxford|Brasenose College]], best known for ''[[The Thirty-nine Steps]]''.
* [[A.S. Byatt]] (born 1936), [[Booker Prize]] winner, undergraduate at Somerville.
* [[Lewis Carroll]] (real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), (1832–1898), author of [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]], was a student and Mathematical Lecturer of [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]].
* [[Susan Cooper]] (born 1935), undergraduate at Somerville, best known for her [[The Dark Is Rising Sequence|''The Dark Is Rising'']] sequence.
* Sir [[William Davenant]] (1606–1668), poet and playwright.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Davenant, Sir William |volume= 7 |last= Gosse |first= Edmund William |author-link= Edmund William Gosse| pages = 851–852 |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Colin Dexter]] (1930–2017), wrote and set his [[Inspector Morse]] [[detective novels]] in Oxford.<ref name="oxfordmail.co.uk"/>
* [[John Donaldson (author)|John Donaldson]] ({{Circa|1921}}–1989), a poet resident in Oxford in later life.
* [[Siobhan Dowd]] (1960–2007), Oxford resident, undergraduate at [[Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford|Lady Margaret Hall]].
* [[Victoria Glendinning]] (born 1937), undergraduate at Somerville.
* [[Kenneth Grahame]] (1859–1932), educated at [[St Edward's School, Oxford|St Edward's School]], wrote ''[[The Wind in the Willows]]''.
* [[J. I. M. Stewart|Michael Innes]] (J. I. M. Stewart) (1906–1994), Scottish novelist and academic, Student of [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]]
* [[P. D. James]] (1920–2014), born and died in Oxford; wrote about ''[[Adam Dalgliesh]]''
* [[C. S. Lewis]] (1898–1963), student at [[University College, Oxford|University College]] and Fellow of Magdalen.
* [[T. E. Lawrence]] (1888–1935), "Lawrence of Arabia", Oxford resident, undergraduate at [[Jesus College, Oxford|Jesus]], postgraduate at [[Magdalen College, Oxford|Magdalen]].
* [[Iris Murdoch]] (1919–1999), undergraduate at Somerville and fellow of [[St Anne's College, Oxford|St Anne's]].
* [[Carola Oman]] (1897–1978), novelist and biographer, born and brought up in the city.
* [[Iain Pears]] (born 1955), undergraduate at [[Wadham College, Oxford|Wadham]] and Oxford resident, wrote  ''[[An Instance of the Fingerpost]]''.
* [[Philip Pullman]] (born 1946), undergraduate at [[Exeter College, Oxford|Exeter]], teacher and resident in the city.
* [[Dorothy L. Sayers]] (1893–1957), undergraduate at Somerville, wrote about ''[[Lord Peter Wimsey]]''.
* [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] (1892–1973), undergraduate at Exeter and later professor of English at [[Merton College, Oxford|Merton]], author of [[The Lord of the Rings]]
* [[John Wain]] (1925–1994), undergraduate at [[St John's College, Oxford|St John's]] and later Professor of Poetry at [[Oxford University]] 1973–78.
* [[Oscar Wilde]] (1854–1900), 19th-century poet and author who attended Oxford from 1874 to 1878.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Wilde, Oscar O'Flahertie Wills |volume= 28 |last= Chisholm |first= Hugh |author-link= Hugh Chisholm | pages = 632–633 |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Athol Williams]] (born 1970), [[South Africa]]n poet, postgraduate at [[Hertford College, Oxford|Hertford]] and [[Regent's Park College, Oxford|Regent's Park]] from 2015 to 2020.
* [[Charles Williams (British writer)|Charles Williams]] (1886–1945), editor at [[Oxford University Press]].
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* the poems [[The Scholar Gypsy]] and [[Thyrsis (poem)|Thyrsis]] by [[Matthew Arnold]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems | title=Poems | publisher=Poetry Foundation | access-date=18 October 2020 | archive-date=17 October 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017022226/https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems | url-status=live }}</ref> Thyrsis includes the lines: "And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening,..."
* ''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel]]''
* "[[Harry Potter]]" (all the films to date)
* ''The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica'' by [[James A. Owen]]
* ''[[Jude the Obscure]]'' (1895) by [[Thomas Hardy]] (in which Oxford is thinly disguised as "Christminster")<ref>{{cite web |url=https://oxfordandempire.web.ox.ac.uk/only-thickness-wall-empire-and-oxford-thomas-hardys-jude-obscure-1895 |title='Only a thickness of wall': Empire and Oxford in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure (1895) |first=John |last=Gray |work=Oxford and Empire Network |publisher=University of Oxford |date=n.d. |access-date=24 January 2023 |archive-date=24 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230124183413/https://oxfordandempire.web.ox.ac.uk/only-thickness-wall-empire-and-oxford-thomas-hardys-jude-obscure-1895 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''[[Zuleika Dobson]]'' (1911) by [[Max Beerbohm]]
* ''[[Gaudy Night]]'' (1935) by [[Dorothy L. Sayers]]
* ''[[Brideshead Revisited]]'' (1945) by [[Evelyn Waugh]]
* ''[[A Question of Upbringing]]'' (1951 ) by [[Anthony Powell]]
* ''[[Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'' (1951 ) by [[Walt Disney]]
* ''[[Second Generation (1964 novel)|Second Generation]]'' (1964) by [[Raymond Williams]]
* ''[[Young Sherlock Holmes]]'' (1985) by [[Steven Spielberg]]
* ''[[Inspector Morse (TV series)|Inspector Morse]]'' (1987–2000)
* ''Where the Rivers Meet'' (1988) trilogy set in Oxford by [[John Wain]]
* ''All Souls'' (1989) by [[Javier Marías]]
* ''[[The Children of Men]]'' (1992) by [[P. D. James]]
* ''[[Doomsday Book (novel)|Doomsday Book]]'' (1992) by [[Connie Willis]]
* ''[[His Dark Materials]]'' trilogy (1995 onwards) by [[Philip Pullman]]
* ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies]]'' (1997)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oxfordshirelive.co.uk/news/oxfordshire-news/james-bond-every-oxfordshire-filming-5976698 |title=James Bond: Every Oxfordshire filming location in No Time To Die, Spectre and more |first=Sofia |last=Della Sala |date=28 September 2021 |publisher=Oxfordshire Live |access-date=23 June 2023 |archive-date=22 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230622205652/https://www.oxfordshirelive.co.uk/news/oxfordshire-news/james-bond-every-oxfordshire-filming-5976698 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''[[The Saint (1997 film)|The Saint]]'' (1997)
* ''[[102 Dalmatians]]'' (2000)
* ''[[Endymion Spring]]'' (2006) by Matthew Skelton
* ''[[Lewis (TV series)|Lewis]]'' (2006–15)
* ''[[The Oxford Murders (film)|The Oxford Murders]]'' (2008)
* ''[[Mr. Nice (book)|Mr. Nice]]'' (1996), autobiography of [[Howard Marks]], subsequently a 2010 film
* ''[[A Discovery of Witches]]'' (2011) by [[Deborah Harkness]]
* ''[[X-Men: First Class]]'' (2011)
* ''[[Endeavour (TV series)|Endeavour]]'' (2012 onwards)
* ''The Reluctant Cannibals'' (2013) by Ian Flitcroft
* ''[[Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again]]'' (2018)
*''[[The Late Scholar]]'' by [[Jill Paton Walsh]], part of the continuation of the [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] books of [[Dorothy L. Sayers]]
*''[[Wonka (film)|Wonka]]'' (2023)<ref name="wonkacite">{{cite news |title=Wonka film showcases historic locations in Dorset and Oxford |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-67565371 |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=BBC News |date=30 November 2023}}</ref>