Victoria Love

Victoria Love, a student contemporary and friend; now a solicitor specialising in Trust Law. She helped me through some of my PhD crises.

``Tonight is Junior Members Guest Night at Jesus; I'm taking an English Graduate, Vicky Love...very fragile and ethereal-looking'' (from a letter to my parents, February 1973).

"Time was away and somewhere else,

There were two glasses and two chairs

And two people with the one pulse,

(Somebody stopped the moving stairs):

Time was away and somewhere else.

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God or whatever means the Good

Be praised that time can stop like this,

That what the heart has understood

Can verify in the body's peace

God or whatever means the Good.

Time was away and she was here

And life no longer what it was,

The bell was silent in the air

And all the room a glow because

Time was away and she was here."

(MacNeice, 1939).

(This once meant something to us..for the whole poem see for example here).

On Magdalen Bridge, Summer 1973

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More recently.

and in the Fellows' Garden at All Souls College:
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With one of her daughters, Kate.

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