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She also attended more than one school in London. Novelist John Cowper Powys (whose lectures she had attended) wrote her a recommendation for a Cambridge scholarship, but she was not successful in gaining one.

She had been writing and gathering the material here for at least ten years. The volume was printed for the Author, and dedicated to Lord Burlington (who subscribed for eight copies). Its publication was...

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...

The novel proper traces Harry Melbourne from his babyhood in the care of labouring-class foster-parents in Cumberland, through his early education by the local parson and his sister, his attendance at Eton and Cambridge

This novel is set in the political climate which followed the recent Reform Bill, and in the fashionable area of the Faubourg St Germain in Paris, which its author knew at first hand, as well...

After attending Cambridge University , David Alfred Thomas , Margaret's father, became a Liberal Member of Parliament, representing Merthyr Tydfil from 1888 to 1910.

Though often submissive in attitudes, JCM was capable of satire or lampoon. The Receipt, an Imitation, dating from about 1720, lists the unsavoury ingredients that go to compose a blockhead Cambridge clergyman (as Pope

At last he says he will teach her no more: he feels he is leading her into the temptation of worldliness. Mr Howells, it turns out, once studied at Cambridge (as the first scholarship boy...

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

RM received an Honorary DLitt from Cambridge University ; the award was a major event in the last decade of her life.

This was the first full-length critical work on Forster. It expressed admiration for his writing, but some amusement or impatience over what it presents as his obsession with Englishness and with the all-male educational world...

During play he was hit by a ball which may have been partly responsible for his sudden illness. On the day of his funeral, play was suspended for a few minutes in his honour during...

Her eponymous Leonard Leuniger is a male Jewish undergraduate at Cambridge , a budding writer. He makes upper-class friends at university whose antisemitism only gradually reveals itself, cruelly frustrating his efforts to win their approval...

RL achieved a Class II in the English Tripos (the first of two exams deciding class of degree awarded) at Cambridge . This was the first year that women were awarded degrees, at least in name.

Rudolph Lehmann was a writer and poet, one-time editor of the Daily News, a contributor to (and at times editor of) Punch, founder of Granta (Cambridge University 's magazine), and, briefly, a...