Christ's College, Cambridge University

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Education John Milton
JM matriculated (that is, was formally received as a university member) at Christ's College, Cambridge , where he took his BA in 1629 and MA in 1632.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Intertextuality and Influence Aldous Huxley
Its womanizing protagonist, Mr Hutton, considers himself the Christ of Ladies (reversing, with what he supposes to be worldly wit, the supposed nickname of Milton as the lady of Christ's).
Huxley, Aldous. Mortal Coils. Chatto and Windus, 1958.
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His internal monologue...
Residence Mary Kingsley
MK 's family moved from Bexley Heath (now Bexleyheath) to 7 Mortimer Road in Cambridge, in order to accompany her brother Charles as he attended Christ's College .
Frank, Katherine. A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley. Houghton Mifflin, 1986.
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Timeline

1505
Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby , endowed Christ's College, Cambridge.
1575
The very early comedyGammer Gurtons Nedle, by Mr S., M[aste]r of Art (William Stevenson ), was printed by Thomas Colwell .