Cambridge University

Aurelia Plath attended the wedding, but otherwise it was a secret kept even from Ted's family and friends, because Sylvia worried that she would lose her Fulbright scholarship if people discovered she was married. Shortly...

MP 's father, the Rev. Roger Griffith, had attended both Oxford and Cambridge universities. He was rector of the Buckingham parish of Padbury, and probably Master of the Royal Latin (Free) School in Buckingham...

During his early life John Hartley remained at home (as opposed to the usual middle-class practice of sending sons to boarding school), and the Hartleys at first employed a nursery governess to educate him.

During play he was hit by a ball which may have been partly responsible for his sudden illness. On the day of his funeral, play was suspended for a few minutes in his honour during...

When the couple's son James was admitted to Cambridge University , his late father was named as gentleman of Combe Sydenham.

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...

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...

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.

Despite his lack of scholastic success WMT was popular socially, and his wide circle of friends at Cambridge included Alfred Tennyson , Edward FitzGerald , and John Allen . His brief time at university also...

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 .

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 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

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