Eton College

Among AM 's surviving letters are a few to friends about her early publications and her feelings about them. She kept her letters to her son, Martin, during his final year at Eton . To...

Other titles were A Coquette in Crape, 1907, An Incomplete Eton ian, 1909,Full Swing,1914, and The Story Behind the Verdict, 1915.

Her title was To the Gentleman, who under the signature Etonensis, addressed some fine poetic lines, containing a very genteel compliment to Mrs. T—r, of Woolwich. Cumbre had identified himself through this pseudonym, Etoniensis...

HG published the first of his nine novels, Blindness, about a student who loses his sight; it was based on a story he had written while still at Eton .

Most of ATR 's unpublished manuscripts and letters are held by the University of London and Eton College libraries.

SH has successfully self-published, and makes extensive use of new media. She is active as both a blogger and a tweeter. In 2013 both Printer's Devil Court, her latest ghost story, and Crystal...

EDP explained to her American readers that the eponymous heroine of Peter's Mother, Lady Mary Crewys, was typical of an Englishwoman of a certain class in being isolated and guarded from all practical knowledge...

The story takes place against the background of the Great Famine (which is just about to begin when the novel opens, in 1845) and the Young Ireland Rebellion of July 1848. The young Dalys, offspring...

She obliged in her best comic vein. She enumerated the views of Englishmen on England (the views of women are not mentioned) in what today would be bullet points, as a kind of lovable reactionary's...

FD sets out her own position in her preface: The Author's best and truest friends, with few exceptions, have been and are men. But the Author will never recognise man's glory and welfare in woman's...

In this later edition ME discarded three stories which she moved to Early Lessons, and added Tarlton, Lazy Lawrence, The False Key, The Birthday Present, Old Poz, The Mimic...

As Robert Lee Wolff argues, The Lady's Mile represents an innovation in the portrayal of male character in Victorian fiction: MEB 's brave officer sells his commission and leaves the army in order to pursue...

She set her radio play in a private girls' boarding school in St Albans (based on one where she had taught), staffed by geriatric lesbians who, the headmistress insisted, were all varsity women. The school...

Whatever the truth of that, she wrote in full consciousness of outsider status, both delight[ing] in the patriarchal anonymity of the TLS and simultaneously tilt[ing] at it. She used the conventional one for I...

This three-volume narrative opens on the childhood of Gwen and Dacre Waring, a sister and brother who grow up in a wealthy, intellectual and agnostic family. Their parents' unorthodox values do not, however, extend to...