Jebb, John. “Memoirs”. The Works, Theological, Medical, Political, and Miscellaneous, of John Jebb, M.D. F.R.S., edited by John Disney, T. Cadell, J. Johnson, and J. Stockdale; J. and J. Merrill, pp. 1: 1 - 227.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Jebb | AJ
's husband John Jebb
resigned his Church of England
preferments including his Cambridge
lectureship. Jebb, John. “Memoirs”. The Works, Theological, Medical, Political, and Miscellaneous, of John Jebb, M.D. F.R.S., edited by John Disney, T. Cadell, J. Johnson, and J. Stockdale; J. and J. Merrill, pp. 1: 1 - 227. 104 Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol. 7 , pp. 597 - 604, 661. 600 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Brontë | Patrick Brontë
was an Irish protestant from a large, respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school for the gentry at the age of sixteen, became... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Pix | MP
's father, the Rev. Roger Griffith, had attended both Oxford
and Cambridge
universities. He was rector of the Buckingham parish of Padbury, and probably Master of the Royal Latin (Free) School
in Buckingham... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | Leslie Stephen
's daughter from his previous marriage, Laura
(1868-1934), suffered from some form of mental disability and lived most of her life in institutions. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 74 |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Piecing together its intellectual family tree, scholars and critics have looked both forward and back from Bloomsbury. It has been seen as descending from the late eighteenth-century Clapham Sect
(to which VW
's great-grandfather James Stephen |
Friends, Associates | William Makepeace Thackeray | Despite his lack of scholastic success WMT
was popular socially, and his wide circle of friends at Cambridge included Alfred Tennyson
, Edward FitzGerald
, and John Allen
. His brief time at university
also... |
Friends, Associates | Emma Frances Brooke | While at Newnham College
, EFB
began her acquaintance with Charlotte Mary Martin
, later Charlotte Wilson
, a forceful young bluestocking with a similar growing dissatisfaction about the political beliefs that she was exposed... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth von Arnim | At Nassenheide, her home in Germany, EA
employed the first of a series of Cambridge
tutors for her children, who famously included future writers E. M. Forster
and Hugh Walpole
. Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head. 96, 102, 120 |
Friends, Associates | Elaine Feinstein | At Cambridge
she met a lot of very interesting Jews who were very Zionistic or left-wing or kinds of things like that. Pacernick, Gary. Meaning and Memory: Interviews with Fourteen Jewish Poets. Ohio State University Press. 186-7 |
Friends, Associates | May Sinclair | In the same period she made two important philosophical friendships: with Anthony Deane
, then a curate, and Henry Melvill Gwatkin
, Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge
. Both wanted to bring her back... |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Thoby Stephen
, VW
's brother, started Thursday Evenings at 46 Gordon Square, mainly so that he could keep in touch with his Cambridge University
friends. These gatherings marked the beginning of what came... |
Friends, Associates | E. M. Forster | EMF
went up to study at King's College
, Cambridge
. While there, he became a member of the Apostles, and met several future member of the Bloomsbury Group, including J. M. Keynes
, Thoby Stephen |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | While woolgathering for her upcoming Women and Fiction lectures at Cambridge
, VW
met with Jane Ellen Harrison
for the last time; in her diary she described her as very aged & rather exalted. Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press. 3: 175-6 |
Friends, Associates | Freya Stark | After her long recovery, FS
continued to enjoy her popularity in London society. Sir Sydney Cockerell
, director of Cambridge
's Fitzwilliam Museum
, became a friend. She was introduced to Virginia Woolf
, Rose Macaulay |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Ellen Harrison | Harrison was always engaged in debates with her colleagues at Cambridge
and elsewhere: her writing here was inspired in part by Gilbert Murray
's unorthodox translation of Euripides
' Hippolytus, published in 1902. Both... |
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