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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. Mark Hussey writes that he was, after Matthew Arnold

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...

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...

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...

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...

It seems that AU 's particularly close, intimate, and possessive relationship with her son, John , may have been experienced by him as damaging, since as an adult he seems to have been anxious and...

ACS began his studies at Eton .

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Most of ATR 's unpublished manuscripts and letters are held by the University of London and Eton College libraries.