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Cultural formation | Anna Atkins | She was born into the English professional class and was presumably white; her father was educated at Eton
and at Queen's College, Cambridge
. During the early years of her childhood her family was well... |
Education | Frances Cornford | Although her step-brother Bernard went to Eton
, Frances Cornford received her education at home, and sometimes shared classes with her nearby cousins, one of whom was Gwen Darwin
, later Raverat. Cornford, Hugh et al. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, p. xxvii - xxxvii. xxviii Raverat, Gwen. Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood. Faber and Faber. 63-4 |
Education | Aldous Huxley | AH
's first school was Prior's Field
(founded by his mother as a progressive institution for girls), where his presence was a tolerated anomaly. With a cousin, he then attended a boys' preparatory boarding school... |
Education | Algernon Charles Swinburne | |
Education | Henry Fielding | HF
attended Eton
, and four years after leaving school enrolled for a while at the University of Leiden
. After the premature end of his career as a theatre manager he enrolled as a... |
Education | George Orwell | Brought back to England at the age of three, Eric Blair (later GO
) was enabled by a scholarship and contributions from relations to go to St Cyprian's, a well-known but oppressive boys' preparatory school... |
Education | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | Later she became interested in Plato
. In 1886 she was one of a group of women who began Greek classes at the Hampstead home of poet and scholar William Cory
, her longtime friend... |
Education | Percy Bysshe Shelley | As a schoolboy at EtonPBS
opposed the system of fagging (allotting junior boys virtually as private slaves to wait on older ones). He was expelled by University College, Oxford
(which later set up a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | MCH
's brother John Heneage Jesse
ended his time at Eton
when he became involved in pranks which forced him to escape on board a yacht to Norway. Employed for many years in the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Strachey | JS
's father, Oliver Strachey
, was the sixth son of Sir Richard
and Jane Maria, Lady Strachey
. He attended Eton
, then Balliol College, Oxford
; the family home was in London... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth von Arnim | EA
gave birth, resentfully, to her son, Henning Bernd
(H. B.), in England on 27 October 1902. Growing up in England and attending Eton
during the First World War, he displayed a kind of heroism... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Angela Dickens | MAD
's father, Charles Culliford Boz Dickens
, was the eldest child of the famous author after whom he was named. He distinguished himself as a student at Eton College
, but his father suspected... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Alison Uttley | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | VW
's father, Sir Leslie Stephen
(1832-1904), was a Victorian philosopher and historian of ideas . . . literary historian and critic, and—perhaps most important—a biographer. Rosenbaum, S. P. “An Educated Man’s Daughter: Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group”. Virginia Woolf: New Critical Essays, edited by Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, Vision; Barnes and Noble, pp. 32-56. 36 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Nancy Mitford |
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