Cambridge University

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.

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...

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...

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...

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 in his teens, became a gentleman's tutor, and finally...

Another aunt, Pernel Strachey , was Principal of Newnham College (one of Cambridge 's two colleges for women) from 1923 to 1941.

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...

Virginia Stephen flirted mildly with and received proposals from a number of men, all Cambridge contemporaries of her brother Thoby .

RS 's sister, Karin , was one of the first Freudian psychoanalysts. She became the first woman at Cambridge to receive a Star, or Distinction, in Philosophy. She married Adrian Stephen , Virginia Woolf 's younger brother.