Oxford University, Oxford, England. In the summer of 2016 I studied abroad for three weeks at Oxford University in Oxford, England. I lived in Brasenose College, which is pictured directly to the right of Radcliffe Camera in the image below. Oxford is a beautiful city, overflowing with history and culture, and I loved living and learning there last summer. The second image shows my favorite place to study when I was at Oxford. The Eagle and Child is a historic pub near Brasenose. C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the other "Inklings" would gather there to brainstorm, write, edit, and share community with each other. C.S. Lewis is one of my favorite authors. The ability to go and write my papers where he first presented Tolkien with a draft of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe was a surreal experience.
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| Oxford University, Radcliffe Camera commons.wikimedia.org |
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| Eagle and Child Pub geograph.org |
Oh, I was so happy as soon as I opened your post, Elizabeth. I did my M.Phil. at Oxford, and I have so many happy memories of that beautiful place! Wonderful! And maybe you could do a C.S.Lewis-inspired project in this class, with some of the children from the Narnia world somehow paying a visit to ancient India. Vishnu even has a lion avatar, although he is much more fierce than Aslan ever was; if you are curious, you can read about Narasimha here: Wikipedia: Narasimha.
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