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Birth | Anne Ridler | Anne Bradby (later AR
) was born at Rugby in Warwickshire, at School Field, one of the houses of Rugby School
, late in the evening of the last day of the summer term. Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, 2004, p. 240 pp. 7 |
Education | Rupert Brooke | He was educated at Rugby School
, where his father was by this time a housemaster, so that the worlds of home and school were perhaps uncomfortably intertwined. He then went on to King's College, Cambridge |
Education | Arthur Hugh Clough | He was a model student at Rugby School
, where Thomas Arnold
was headmaster and his son Matthew Arnold
a fellow student who became a close friend of Clough's. From Rugby AHC
went on to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel M. Arnold | Her father, Thomas Arnold
the younger, was the eldest and favourite son of Doctor Arnold
, of Rugby
. The Arnolds were a staunchly Anglican
family, but her father shocked his family by converting to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Augusta Ward | Thomas Arnold
, the reforming Rugby
headmaster, was her illustrious grandfather. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel Sidgwick | ES
's father, Arthur Sidgwick
, was a classical scholar who had been regarded since school and university days as brilliant. He spent many years as a master at Rugby School
before becoming a Fellow... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Ridler | AR
's father, Henry Christopher Bradby
, was a housemaster at Rugby School
, where he had succeeded the father of Rupert Brooke
. He died in 1947, and at his funeral a friend called... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sophia Jex-Blake | Her brother, Thomas William Jex-Blake
, served as a consistently supportive figure. He was ordained a clergyman, and found his own success as an educator. He began his last of several successive educational roles as... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rose Macaulay | RM
's father
left Rugby School
to take his family to live in the warm climate of Varazze, Italy, on account of his wife's ill health. They stayed in Italy for seven years. Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray, 1991. 19, 23-5 Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins, 1972. 24-5 Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago, 2003. 22 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rose Macaulay | RM
's father, George Campbell Macaulay
, was a schoolmaster at Rugby School
when she was born. He later became an academic. His death at sixty-three in 1915 was both a great loss and a... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Hands | Prominent among the middle-class supporters and champions of EH
's poetry were Dr Thomas James
and Philip Bracebridge Homer
(masters at Rugby School
), and Bertie Greatheed
. |
Literary responses | Ann Masterman Skinn | The Critical Review dismissed the novel as nauseous and insipid, and the heroine as so inconsistent as to be incredible; its only reason for noticing it at all was to deter AMS
from further publication... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Hands | The advertisement for the book in print, like the pre-notification, was carried by Jopson's Coventry Mercury. The volume was dedicated to the dramatist Bertie Greatheed
. It was issued in two forms: ordinary copies... |
Residence | Anne Ridler | She loved the large Rugby
house and garden of her early years, where she climbed trees and played games of make-believe. Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, 2004, p. 240 pp. 8-9 |
Textual Production | Emma Jane Worboise | Thomas Arnold (1795-1842) was the grandfather of Mary Augusta Ward
and was famous as headmaster of Rugby School
. |
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