Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Residence | Frances Burney | FB
and her husband
returned to France, leaving their son at Cambridge University
(where he had opted to remain) and intending to settle. Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon. 355 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Burney | The next brother, Charles
, was expelled from Cambridge University
for stealing books from the library, but eventually became respected as a clergyman and a scholar. |
Occupation | Josephine Butler | In 1868 JB
(as president of the organization
from 1867 until around 1871) presented its petition for the examination of women candidates for entrance to Cambridge University
. The petition was granted in 1869, and... |
Textual Production | Josephine Butler | In a personal letter she said this pamphlet was written at the request of the Vice Chancellor and Dons of Cambridge
. Jordan, Jane. Josephine Butler. John Murray. 91 |
Family and Intimate relationships | A. S. Byatt | 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... |
Characters | A. S. Byatt | ASB
says that this book and its three successors are about the desirability of an androgynous mind. Friel, James, and Jenny Newman. “A. S. Byatt”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction: An Introduction through Interviews, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Hodder Headline, pp. 36-53. 43 |
Occupation | Elizabeth Carter | Edward Moore
's periodical The World mooted the extraordinary concept of EC
as principal of an Oxford
or Cambridge
college: this number may be by Hester Mulso Chapone
. The World. R. and J. Dodsley. 131: 790 |
Education | Susanna Centlivre | It was said that she read Molière
at twelve, and that she disguised herself as a boy in order to study at Cambridge University
. All this, however, belongs to a dubious area of fictionalisation... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christabel Coleridge | 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... |
Literary Setting | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Pastors and Masters takes place in a university town resembling pre-first-World-War Cambridge
, which ICB
had visited when her brother Noel was there. Like King's College
at that date, her fictional academic community is pervaded... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Cornford | 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
. Cornford, Hugh et al. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, p. xxvii - xxxvii. xxvii |
Publishing | Rosalind Coward | |
Textual Features | Richmal Crompton | |
politics | Emily Davies | Despite her commitment to equal standards of education, ED
felt that the artificial separation of boys and girls during earlier education made it impossible to have integrated university lectures and thought it wisest to situate... |
politics | Emily Davies | The College applied for incorporation as an Association under the Board of Trade
in order to establish its legal existence. The document drawn up by the College's Committee professed the College's affiliation with both the... |
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