Cambridge University

TD and Aru were briefly enrolled at a boarding school in Nice where they studied French. After moving to England they continued their studies and attended the Higher Lectures for Women series begun by Henry Sidgwick

While at Cambridge Mary Agnes Adamson (later MAH ) fell in love several times. The experience, to her and her contemporaries, was expressed in highly spiritual and intellectual terms: I remained blankly ignorant about sex...

The stories are set in and around a hotel, formerly an eighteenth-century colonial mansion, in Jamaica at the close of the expensive, fashionable season, and most of them feature English people startled, shocked, or reinvigorated...

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

The second story, Found in the Far North, is narrated in the first person by a young Cambridge student from Norwich whose failure to heed his father's advice about choosing his company with care...

ASB says that this book and its three successors are about the desirability of an androgynous mind. After opening at the National Portrait Gallery in London, the story is set in Yorkshire (though...