Eton College

MAD 's father, Charles Culliford Boz Dickens , was the eldest child of the famous author after whom he was named. He distinguished himself as a student at Eton College , but his father suspected...

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...

HF attended Eton , and four years after leaving school enrolled for a while at the University of Leiden . After the premature end of his career as a theatre manager he enrolled as a...

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...

EG 's close friend Lady Warwick , when shown the finished manuscript of this book, warned EG not to publish it, or she would tarnish or ruin her reputation. Indeed, the novel did...

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 .

AH 's father, Thomas Murray , Provost of Eton and Preceptor to the future Charles I , died in April 1623, when she was three months old.

From these tours she moved on to lecturing at the South Kensington Museum until about 1894. Her audiences were comprised mostly of middle- and upper-class women, and she spoke of the benefits of intellectual...

In her introduction EH , anonymously, says she is opposed to romances, novels, and whatever carries the air of them. She will not, she says, exaggerate good or bad qualities, but give the unvarnished...

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...

MCH 's brother John Heneage Jesse ended his time at Eton when he became involved in pranks which forced him to escape on board a yacht to Norway. Employed for many years in the...

AH 's first school was Prior's Field (founded by his mother as a progressive institution for girls), where his presence was a tolerated anomaly. With a cousin, he then attended a boys' preparatory boarding school...

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...