Cambridge University

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

Pastors and Masters takes place in a university town resembling pre-first-World-War Cambridge , which ICB had visited when her brother Noel was there. Like King's College at that date, her fictional academic community is pervaded...

IDH may have had an interest in Pre-Raphaelite art, since in 1872 she composed a letter in support of renowned painter Ford Madox Brown 's nomination to a professorship at Cambridge .

The then celibate society of Cambridge University clearly enjoyed the company of a woman who was their equal in intellectual ability and in range of reading. The Jebbs gave tea-parties, and Ann soon became the...

According to a reminiscence from the early half of 1868 by a reader who had been a Cambridge undergraduate when the book appeared, MAK first thought of titling her novel after its heroine, but was...

Harrison was always engaged in debates with her colleagues at Cambridge and elsewhere: her writing here was inspired in part by Gilbert Murray 's unorthodox translation of Euripides ' Hippolytus, published in 1902. Both...

Though her influence is not always explicitly acknowledged, JEH made a profound impact on twentieth-century classical scholarship. Her work colours studies not only by Gilbert Murray and Francis Cornford (discussed above), but also by E. R. Dodds

While at Newnham College , EFB began her acquaintance with Charlotte Mary Martin , later Charlotte Wilson , a forceful young bluestocking with a similar growing dissatisfaction about the political beliefs that she was exposed...

At Nassenheide, her home in Germany, EA employed the first of a series of Cambridge tutors for her children, who famously included future writers E. M. Forster and Hugh Walpole .

At Cambridge she met a lot of very interesting Jews who were very Zionistic or left-wing or kinds of things like that. She later met other writers who hailed from Liverpool, like Brian Patten

In the same period she made two important philosophical friendships: with Anthony Deane , then a curate, and Henry Melvill Gwatkin , Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge . Both wanted to bring her back...

Thoby Stephen , VW 's brother, started Thursday Evenings at 46 Gordon Square, mainly so that he could keep in touch with his Cambridge University friends. These gatherings marked the beginning of what came...

While woolgathering for her upcoming Women and Fiction lectures at Cambridge , VW met with Jane Ellen Harrison for the last time; in her diary she described her as very aged & rather exalted.

EMF went up to study at King's College , Cambridge . While there, he became a member of the Apostles, and met several future member of the Bloomsbury Group, including J. M. Keynes , Thoby Stephen

After her long recovery, FS continued to enjoy her popularity in London society. Sir Sydney Cockerell , director of Cambridge 's Fitzwilliam Museum , became a friend. She was introduced to Virginia Woolf , Rose Macaulay