Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm would fit the bill.
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Zuleika Dobson is a brilliant Edwardian satire on Oxford life by one of English literature's most glittering wits that now reads as something much darker and more compelling. Readers new to Max Beerbohm's masterpiece, which is subtitled An Oxford Love Story, will find a diaphanous novel possessed of a delayed explosive charge that detonates today with surprising power.
Zuleika, the granddaughter of the warden of Judas College, is a female sleight-of-hand magician. She is also a femme fatale, a turn-of-the-century It girl and a minor celebrity. This fascinating young woman of extraordinary beauty arrives in Oxford, a privileged all-male academic society, and immediately devastates the student body, becoming first its icon and then its nemesis.
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It was probably an influence on Evelyn Waugh's early novels and perhaps Wodehouse's Mayfair novels.