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Eton College
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Education | Algernon Charles Swinburne | |
Friends, Associates | Algernon Charles Swinburne | After leaving Eton
, he met Lady Pauline
and Walter Trevelyan
, who became longtime friends and supporters. At Oxford he was first introduced to the Pre-Raphaelites
, and he forged friendships with Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Family and Intimate relationships | Alison Uttley | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth von Arnim | EA
gave birth, resentfully, to her son, Henning Bernd
(H. B.), in England on 27 October 1902. Growing up in England and attending Eton
during the First World War, he displayed a kind of heroism... |
Literary responses | Evelyn Waugh | Most reviews were mocking in tone, in keeping with the late image of Waugh as a kind of Colonel Blimp. Philip Larkin
wrote that to be one of his correspondents one would have to have... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | VW
's father, Sir Leslie Stephen
(1832-1904), was a Victorian philosopher and historian of ideas . . . literary historian and critic, and—perhaps most important—a biographer. Rosenbaum, S. P. “An Educated Man’s Daughter: Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group”. Virginia Woolf: New Critical Essays, edited by Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, Vision; Barnes and Noble, pp. 32-56. 36 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | 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. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 74 |
Textual Features | Virginia Woolf | 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. Wood, James. “Phut-Phut”. London Review of Books, pp. 11-12. 11 |
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