Eton College

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Features Kathleen Caffyn
This three-volume narrative opens on the childhood of Gwen and Dacre Waring, a sister and brother who grow up in a wealthy, intellectual and agnostic family. Their parents' unorthodox values do not, however, extend to...
Textual Features Virginia Woolf
Whatever the truth of that, she wrote in full consciousness of outsider status, both delight[ing] in the patriarchal anonymity of the TLS and simultaneously tilt[ing] at it.
Wood, James. “Phut-Phut”. London Review of Books, 27 June 2002, pp. 11-12.
11
She used the conventional one for I...
Textual Production Susan Hill
SH has successfully self-published, and makes extensive use of new media. She is active as both a blogger and a tweeter. In 2013 both Printer's Devil Court, her latest ghost story, and Crystal...
Textual Production Anne Marsh
Among AM 's surviving letters are a few to friends about her early publications and her feelings about them. She kept her letters to her son, Martin, during his final year at Eton . To...
Textual Production Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Most of ATR 's unpublished manuscripts and letters are held by the University of London and Eton College libraries.
Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press, 2000.
333
Textual Production Julia Frankau
Other titles were A Coquette in Crape, 1907, An Incomplete Eton ian, 1909,
JF 's son Gilbert attended Eton.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Gilbert Frankau
Full Swing,1914, and The Story Behind the Verdict, 1915.
Textual Production Elizabeth Gilding
Her title was To the Gentleman, who under the signature Etonensis, addressed some fine poetic lines, containing a very genteel compliment to Mrs. T—r, of Woolwich. Cumbre had identified himself through this pseudonym, Etoniensis...
Textual Production Henry Green
HG published the first of his nine novels, Blindness, about a student who loses his sight; it was based on a story he had written while still at Eton .
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press, 1996.
290
Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1987.
237

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