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Harrow School
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Birth | Sylvia Townsend Warner | She was an only child. According to William Maxwell
(an editor of her letters, to whom she dictated notes in 1966), her birth was marked by what amounted to portents. Her mother went into labour... |
Education | Anthony Trollope | AT
attended first Harrow School
(where, though he was too young for the regular intake, he had a free place because his father had bought a house in the district), then a private school in... |
Education | Flora Annie Steel | Flora was encouraged to continue her education for herself in books, sketching, and the piano. Her singing was later admired by the music master of Harrow School
(which her brothers attended), and she created miniature... |
Education | George Gordon sixth Baron Byron | His education began in earnest with attendance at Aberdeen grammar school, from which, via a small private school in Dulwich, he made the transition to Harrow School
and then to Trinity College, Cambridge
. |
Education | Lady Colin Campbell | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Before she was twenty STW
embarked on a lengthy affair with distinguished musicologist Dr Percy Buck
, music master at Harrow School
, which lasted until 1930. Baldwin, Dean, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 139. Gale Research, 1994. 139: 304 Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora, 1988. 14 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emmuska Baroness Orczy | John Montagu Orczy Barstow
, or Jack, born in 1899, was educated at a prep school and then at Harrow
, where, his mother says, he never won a prize. His parents would console him... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Gregory | |
Occupation | Mary Shelley | MS
supported herself and Percy Florence through her writing—novels and journalism—and editing. He, through her earnings, was educated at Harrow School
and Cambridge University
. She also supported her aging father
until his death in 1836. Hill-Miller, Katherine C. ’My Hideous Progeny’: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship. University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1995. 52-4 Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo, Broadview, 1997, pp. 9-45. 10-11 |
Publishing | Jean Middlemass | Mary Jane (later Jean) Middlemass
began to write at an early age, in a privately circulated magazine printed by her father
. Other contributors were her brothers, and some of their classmates from Harrow School
. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893. 264-5 |
Reception | Naomi Mitchison | |
Residence | Mary Shelley | MS
lived in Portman Square, London; she then moved to Harrow, so that her son, who had entered Harrow School
, should not have to board (and pay extra fees). Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988. xviii Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo, Broadview, 1997, pp. 9-45. 10 |
Residence | Annie Besant | In 1855, after the death of Annie's father and of her younger brother Alfred, her mother moved with the remaining children to Harrow. There she boarded Harrow School
boys to support herself and to... |
Textual Production | Augusta Gregory | AG
wrote another wonder playAristotle's Bellows, first produced by the Abbey Theatre Company
on 17 March 1921, as well as a children's play, The Jester, written at her grandson's request to be... |
Textual Production | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | As a child, Georgiana Spencer wrote poems, stories, and playlets for family performance, about heroines in need of rescue. When her brother went to Harrow
she wrote him verse letters which he passed round among... |
Timeline
About 1800: By now more than 70% of peers' eldest sons...
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About 1800
By now more than 70% of peers' eldest sons were educated at one of four top public schools: Eton
, Harrow
, Westminster
, and Winchester
.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
167
1858: F. W. Farrar, at that time a master at Harrow...
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1858
F. W. Farrar
, at that time a master at Harrow School
, published Eric, or Little by Little, a more Evangelical rival to Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes
, issued the previous year.
Turner, Ernest Sackville. “Bosh”. London Review of Books, 17 Apr. 2003, pp. 36-8.
36, 38
Around 1883: The Church of England Purity Society struck...
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Around 1883
The Church of England Purity Society
struck a special Schoolmasters' Committee to investigate the incidence of masturbation in public schools.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
134
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