Inês Gaspar da Rosa

Both were born in 1922, both studied English Literature at Oxford between 1940 and 1943 («City we shared without knowing», as Larkin writes in «Poem about Oxford»), both had First Class degrees. Monica Jones and Philip Larkin, however, only met in 1946 at Leicester University College, where Jones had been appointed as an Assistant Lecturer in English, and Larkin as an Assistant Librarian. They were lovers and confidants until death them did part.