No, Madge, I’m NOT going to lend you my notes on Emma. Tuh.
Madonna has been accepted at Oxford University, where she will study English Literature–presumably including the work of Jane Austen.
Contacted at his parsonage in Gloucestershire, the Rev. Mr. Henry Tilney, late of the same university, said, “In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes; yet, though Mrs. Tilney says I am rather a good dancer, I would not endeavour to join the lady in question’s troupe of performers. One could wish that she would extend the same courtesy to others.” Mr. Tilney’s colleague and fellow Oxford man, the Rev. Mr. Bertram of Mansfield Park and Thornton Lacey, said, “Thank the Lord she won’t be in my old house.” One Mr. J. Thorpe of Putney expressed a vulgarism that we cannot repeat in a family publication and vowed that Mrs. Ritchie is a “d——d fine gal,” and a Mr. Wickham of London said, “Too bad she didn’t choose Cambridge. We knew how to treat the ladies there.”
And now we have been sufficient silly (and not really on-topic) for the day. 
Say good night, Gracie.
October 3rd, 2004 at 9:17 am
Madonna - now she’s a demn’ fine looking gel, and has been these many decades.
But a lady, sdmitted to Oxford University? I say, pull the other one, why don’t you… next you’ll be telling us that ladies can now take holy orders!!!
Now, in the article you link to, Madonna is quoted as saying she wishes to further her knowledge of British Literature. Tell me - does she not have a father, who could make his library available to her? Does she not have an (even) older brother, who could recommend to her some of our Poets; Cowper, for instance? the immortal Crabbe? e.e. cummings?