At first sight, the explanation may be sought in the inbred, Oxbridgy atmosphere of the English literary circle.
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At first sight, the explanation may be sought in the inbred, Oxbridgy atmosphere of the English literary circle.
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Which is probably a snobby Oxbridgy thing – they tend to get most of their people into City jobs.
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Her parents had not understood about university but then, in a way, Emily too had always felt uncomfortable with the more Oxbridgy elements of UCL (the classics students who sat in the quad pretending they were at Balliol).
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The Atheneum crowd, very Oxbridgy and, for all their liberal airs, quite nose-up when it came to rube Irish geniuses in brown suits with the look of a pig farmer’s right-hand man, had yet to notice me and perhaps never would.
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