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Alma Mater: Or, Seven Years at the University of Cambridge. By a Trinity-Man [i.e. John M.F. Wright.].
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Author: University of CambridgeBritish Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century by S. Austin Allibone
Author: Initials and Pseudonyms
Author: William CushingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, American
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 830
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General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Student Life in Nineteenth-Century Cambridge
Author: Christopher StrayPublisher: University of Exeter Press
ISBN: 1804130281
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
John Wright's Alma Mater was the first book-length student memoir to be published in Britain. Yet this trailblazing and revealing work has never been reprinted since its appearance in 1827. Full of fascinating detail about college life, it discusses teaching, examinations and student socialising, including sport, hunting and recourse to prostitutes. A remarkable story of success and failure, it often resembles a picaresque novel: after an eventful undergraduate career, Wright became a hack writer and tutor in London. His marriage failed, his wife left him, his children went to the workhouse, and ultimately he was transported for theft to Tasmania, where he died a premature death. This autobiographical memoir has often been referred to or quoted by studies of Cambridge University and the history of mathematics, but the life of its author has never been satisfactorily explored. This new edition makes an important source and a vivid historical document available for the first time. It includes an in-depth exploration of university and college archives, while Wright’s life is also investigated through outside sources, such as the records of the Royal Literary Fund and those of court, prison and transportation authorities. Wright's account, along with the commentary and notes presented here, offers extraordinary reading for anyone interested in the history of the University of Cambridge, the teaching of mathematics in the nineteenth century and the life of Grub Street, the London literary underworld in the 1820s and 1830s. The more general reader will also be surprised and entertained by this topsy-turvy tale recounted with candour and verve.
The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British Library (London)Publisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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