Eton College

It seems that AU 's particularly close, intimate, and possessive relationship with her son, John , may have been experienced by him as damaging, since as an adult he seems to have been anxious and...

Francis Warre Cornish , husband of BWC , died. He had resigned that April from his positions at Eton .

He later assumed his mother's birth-name, becoming Warre Cornish. He was older than his wife by seventeen years, and had fallen love with her when she was only sixteen.They had eight children together: in the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

MS 's son George Savage was born on 18 July 1750 and educated at Eton . He went on to King's College, Cambridge, was ordained and held posts successively as chaplain to a member of...

NM 's only brother, Tom, went to Eton , while any education sisters acquired was imparted at home. During the second world war he was with the British army in Burma (now Myanmar), where he died.

After leaving Eton , he met Lady Pauline and Walter Trevelyan , who became longtime friends and supporters. At Oxford he was first introduced to the Pre-Raphaelites , and he forged friendships with Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Most reviews were mocking in tone, in keeping with the late image of Waugh as a kind of Colonel Blimp. Philip Larkin wrote that to be one of his correspondents one would have to have...

In JS 's original concept, her heroine moved on the fringes of high society, as her name implies. Miniver derives from vair, which is merely squirrel fur but is used in ceremonial costume, it also...

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

From these tours she moved on to lecturing at the South Kensington Museum until about 1894. Her audiences were comprised mostly of middle- and upper-class women, and she spoke of the benefits of intellectual...

Her title-page quotes a wish voiced on 1 December 1814 in the House of Lords that it were possible to summon Sobieski to attend the Congress of Vienna which was even then deciding the political...