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...

The novel proper traces Harry Melbourne from his babyhood in the care of labouring-class foster-parents in Cumberland, through his early education by the local parson and his sister, his attendance at Eton and Cambridge

The book was attacked on its appearance as anti-Christian, in an open letter to the press, signed by most of the Establishment including both English archbishops and the headmasters of Eton and Harrow . NM

NM 's only brother, Tom, went to Eton , while any education sisters acquired was imparted at home. During the second world war he was with the British army in Burma (now Myanmar), where he died.

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...

MO decided to send her two surviving boys to school at Eton , near their new home at Windsor.

Brought back to England at the age of three, Eric Blair (later GO ) was enabled by a scholarship and contributions from relations to go to St Cyprian's, a well-known but oppressive boys' preparatory school...

Her title-page quotes a wish voiced on 1 December 1814 in the House of Lords that it were possible to summon Sobieski to attend the Congress of Vienna which was even then deciding the political...

Most of ATR 's unpublished manuscripts and letters are held by the University of London and Eton College libraries.

Many chapters are headed with quotations from Shakespeare or Cowper . This novel pits domestic (upper-class) ties against destructive passions, the latter aroused by the fascinating Marchioness of Laisville (whose vices do not ruin her...

MS 's son George Savage was born on 18 July 1750 and educated at Eton . He went on to King's College, Cambridge, was ordained and held posts successively as chaplain to a member of...

As a schoolboy at EtonPBS opposed the system of fagging (allotting junior boys virtually as private slaves to wait on older ones). He was expelled by University College, Oxford (which later set up a...

HS 's two villains are in truth fairly familiar, as are her two heroes, Henry Fitzherbert and Edgar Aubrey, and her two heroines, Camilla St Clair and Emily Harland. Fitzherbert takes most of the narrative...

JS 's father, Oliver Strachey , was the sixth son of Sir Richard and Jane Maria, Lady Strachey . He attended Eton , then Balliol College, Oxford ; the family home was in London...

In JS 's original concept, her heroine moved on the fringes of high society, as her name implies. Miniver derives from vair, which is merely squirrel fur but is used in ceremonial costume, it also...