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Piecing together its intellectual family tree, scholars and critics have looked both forward and back from Bloomsbury. It has been seen as descending from the late eighteenth-century Clapham Sect (to which VW 's great-grandfather James 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

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

RM 's father was appointed to a Lectureship in English at Cambridge University , and the family moved to Great Shelford, four miles from Cambridge.

JEH began a close academic and personal relationship with Cambridge classical scholar R. A. Neil . Her later companion Hope Mirrlees suggested that at the time of Neil's death in 1901 these two were engaged.

Derwent lost his faith in orthodox Anglicanism for some years following his time at Cambridge but regained it after meeting his wife, and became an advocate of a broad theological approach. As an Anglican clergyman...

AS met her longtime partner Sarah Wood at Cambridge University in the 1980s. Wood, now a documentary filmmaker with a focus on the found object, collaborated with Smith on theatrical projects, mounting original...

When she returned to London from Crete after an intensive spell of literary work, RP married Myles Burnyeat , a Cambridge professor of ancient philosophy.

Classics lecturer JEH met her student and later close companion, Hope Mirrlees , at Newnham College , Cambridge .

Patrick Brontë was an Irish protestant from a large, respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school for the gentry at the age of sixteen, became...

Patrick Brontë was an Irish protestant from a large respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school for the gentry at the age of sixteen, became...

He had attended Cambridge , where he rowed for the University. The first years of their union seem to have been happy.

Frances's father, Francis Darwin , later Sir Francis, was a Cambridge botanist. He had earlier worked as an assistant and secretary to his father, Charles Darwin . His niece Gwen thought him the most...

Patrick Brontë was an Irish protestant from a large respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school in his teens, became a gentleman's tutor, and finally...

AJ 's husband John Jebb resigned his Church of England preferments including his Cambridge lectureship.