Eton College

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...

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...

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

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...

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.

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

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

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.