Cambridge University

Philippa attended Newnham College (the women's college founded by the efforts of her parents) and was marked higher than any other final-year student in mathematics at Cambridge in 1890, embarrassing the university since the title...

EF was editor of the first number of Prospect, a literary magazine published this winter at Cambridge University . She used her editorship (continued until the fifth issue) to introduce an American avant-garde influenced...

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

She had been working at several jobs already: magazine editing, giving tutorials (at Cambridge called supervisions) to undergraduates, and teaching for the WEA . She earned money the family sorely needed (in part for school...

The protagonist, an academic Arabist like her father, is drawn back from modern Cambridge to medieval Toledo in Spain, and to a time when members of Christian, Judaic, and Islamic communities interacted freely. She...

EF , who was a contemporary of Hughes as a Cambridge undergraduate and a friend in later years, was commissioned to write this book three weeks after Hughes's funeral in 1999. The Sunday Times serialised...

PF published The Gate of Angels, a novel set in an imaginary, all-male Cambridge college in 1912.

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

EMF published his best-known work of literary criticism, Aspects of the Novel, based on the Clark Lectures which he had delivered at Cambridge .

Stephen Lock suggests in his introduction to the 1989 reprint that this novel is à clef: that JF 's Phillips (whose name, before the publisher suggested a change, was Dr Abrams) was modelled on Ernest Abraham Hart

The stories are set in and around a hotel, formerly an eighteenth-century colonial mansion, in Jamaica at the close of the expensive, fashionable season, and most of them feature English people startled, shocked, or reinvigorated...

MG was chosen for publication in the Cambridge University magazine Granta in 1983, and has contributed to The Guardian, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, Mslexia, the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday...

MG gives a very funny account of being interviewed for a place at Cambridge by Queenie Leavis , whose name she did not recognise, and talking confidently about Keats in ignorance of the way F. R. Leavis

In 2013 GG sold her archives (student notes and essays, scripts for the CambridgeFootlights Society , literary and scholarly manuscripts, diaries, a handmade book designed for her friend Gay Clifford , and professional and...

While at Cambridge Mary Agnes Adamson (later MAH ) fell in love several times. The experience, to her and her contemporaries, was expressed in highly spiritual and intellectual terms: I remained blankly ignorant about sex...