Cambridge University

RM 's father was appointed to a Lectureship in English at Cambridge University , and the family moved to Great Shelford, four miles from Cambridge.

Classics lecturer JEH met her student and later close companion, Hope Mirrlees , at Newnham College , Cambridge .

ASB 's father, barrister John Frederick Drabble , was also a Cambridge graduate. He began writing novels in his retirement. He died in 1982. ASB grew up in an intellectual environment; her parents valued art...

When she returned to London from Crete after an intensive spell of literary work, RP married Myles Burnyeat , a Cambridge professor of ancient philosophy.

Another of JEH 's associates during this period was Roman studies scholar Eugénie Sellers . Both women had been students at Cambridge (though not quite simultaneously) and both appeared in 1883 in a London production...

Derwent lost his faith in orthodox Anglicanism for some years following his time at Cambridge but regained it after meeting his wife, and became an advocate of a broad theological approach. As an Anglican clergyman...

AJ 's husband John Jebb resigned his Church of England preferments including his Cambridge lectureship.

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.Julia Stephen had three children from her first marriage...

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...

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...

DM 's father, Ralph Cudworth , was a Professor of Hebrew, Master of two successive Cambridge colleges, leader of the Cambridge Platonist group of philosophers, and author of The True Intellectual System of the Universe...

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...

Aurelia Plath attended the wedding, but otherwise it was a secret kept even from Ted's family and friends, because Sylvia worried that she would lose her Fulbright scholarship if people discovered she was married. Shortly...

Frances's father, Francis Darwin , later Sir Francis, was a Cambridge botanist. He had earlier worked as an assistant and secretary to his father, Charles Darwin . His niece Gwen thought him the most...

WE is said to have fallen in love while at Cambridge with members of both sexes. Someone informed on him for possessing condoms (which was then unacceptable to the authorities), and according to his biographer...