Dauerte / Took Englisch / English Englische Literatur / English Literature Haupt / Major Ja wirklich / Really Klassen / Classes Literatur / Literature Religion Studierte / Studied Unabhängig / Independent
I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.
You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.
Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.
I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her childhood - E. Nesbit and Dickens, which isn't children's literature at all, but I was sort of steeped in English literature. I thought I was of that world.
From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew.
With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.
My master's degree was in English literature.
'No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.
My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.
