Where is the girl, who by the boatman’s door,        Above the locks, above the boating throng,                Unmoor’d our skiff when through the Wytham flats, Red loosestrife and blond meadow-sweet among       And darting swallows and light water-gnats,               We track’d the shy Thames shore?  (From Matthew Arnold’s “Thyrsis” (1865) , set around Oxford.) More detective fiction! But this time it’s actually from the interwar period–the Golden Age–rather than just being set there. An all-female Oxford college, full of clever, high-spirited girls with enough time […]