Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Trinity College, Cambridge University
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | Virginia's elder brother, Thoby (1880-1906), was confident, talented, charming, and very important to her. At Trinity College, Cambridge
, he developed a circle of friends who were to be the core of the Bloomsbury Group... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | Adrian
(1883-1948) was the youngest Stephen child. After Vanessa's marriage he lived with Virginia at 29 Fitzroy Square, then moved with her to 38 Brunswick Square. Like Thoby, he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge
... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Webster | Augusta Davies
married solicitor Thomas Webster
, son of a tradesman, a Fellow and law lecturer at Trinity College
, Cambridge. Rigg, Patricia. Julia Augusta Webster: Victorian Aestheticism and the Woman Writer. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 152 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Beatrice Webb | Sidney also came from the middle class, but from a very different and less privileged part of it. He was a self-educated polymath, having been unable, while working as a civil servant, to take up... |
Reception | Marina Warner | Subsequently, Warner has been a Visiting Fellow at the British Film Institute
(1992), Trinity College, Cambridge
(1998), the Humanities Research Centre, Warwick University
(1999), Stanford University
(2000), and All Souls College
, Oxford (2001). She... |
Education | William Makepeace Thackeray | Two years after his father died, the small WMT
was sent from India to England to begin his education. His mother, who remarried, herself returned to England in 1819. Thackeray was educated at a number... |
Education | Alfred Tennyson | AT
was initially educated by his father, and then at Trinity College, Cambridge
, which he entered in November 1827 (by which time he had already co-published his first volume of poetry, Poems, by Two... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Menella Bute Smedley | MBS
's father, the Rev. Edward Smedley
, was a curate with an MA from Trinity College, Cambridge
. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research. 2123 |
Reception | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
's involvement in the militant suffrage movement was necessarily controversial: contemporaries both lauded and reviled her. In her diary Virginia Woolf
described EPL
's style of public speaking in 1918 with some disdain. I... |
Education | Sir Isaac Newton | Newton entered Trinity College, Cambridge
in June 1661, in the category of sub-sizar, a poor student who would earn his keep by waiting on others. His mother had wanted to keep him at home to... |
Employer | Sir Isaac Newton | In 1667 he became a Fellow of Trinity
(which gave him an income and freedom to pursue his intellectual interests with no prescribed duties, such as teaching) and two years after that Lucasian Professor of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Alice Meynell | AM
's father was Thomas James Thompson
, an illegitimate son of a British man, James Thompson
, and a Creole woman, Mary Edwards
. (Her ethnic roots remain unknown; it is certain she had... |
Textual Production | Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke | She went on working at them later, developing her skills as she went on, and doing a great deal of revision. Her critic Gary F. Waller
believes that she kept two working drafts simultaneously in... |
Textual Production | Cecily Mackworth | CM
lectured for the Alliance Française
at Trinity College
, Cambridge, on Stéphane Mallarmé
and the Symbolists in poetry. Hewett, Christopher, editor. The Living Curve : Letters to W. J. Strachan, 1929-1979. Taranman. 39 |
Textual Production | Rose Macaulay | The major collection of RM
's papers is in the Wren Library at Trinity College, Cambridge
; many smaller collections exist as well. Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago. 300 |
Timeline
1872: In A History of English Literature William...
Writing climate item
1872
In A History of English LiteratureWilliam Collier
, a professor at Trinity College
, asserted that all criticism is biographical because it is impossible to separate the author from the book.
15 November 1979: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher revealed...
National or international item
15 November 1979
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher revealed that Sir Anthony Blunt
, distinguished art historian and Master of the Queen's Pictures, had spied for Soviet Russia.
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