List of fictional Oxbridge colleges
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This is a list of fictional colleges of either:
- the universities referred to collectively as Oxbridge, but where the specific university is not specified or known;
- fictional institutions spanning both Oxford and Cambridge universities; or
- a fictional Oxbridge University
- Boniface College, Oxbridge
- Pendennis by William Thackeray, inspired by his time at Cambridge and home to the poet Sprott.[1]
- Fernham College, Oxbridge
- A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, based on Newnham College, established in 1871 as the first exclusive women's college at Cambridge University.[2][3]
- Footlights College, Oxbridge
- from which came a team of participants in an imitation of University Challenge in an episode of The Young Ones called "Bambi". Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Ben Elton played contestants: "Lord Snot", "Lord Monty", "Miss Money-Sterling", and "Mr. Kendall-Mintcake", respectively. Fry, Laurie and Thompson were all students at Cambridge and members of its Footlights Dramatic Club.
- Omnibus College
- in Middlemarch, Chapter 52, where Fred Vincy takes his bachelor's degree.[4]
- Pembridge College, Oxbridge: The Passing of Sherlock Holmes; by E. V. Knox
- St Luke's College
- "The Adventure of the Three Students", a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle.[5]
In The Masters by C. P. Snow, the author decries the use of a fictional name for the college where the events he describes take place as being the "Christminster" convention, Christminster being the fictional version of Oxford in Thomas Hardy's Wessex.
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- ↑ Thackeray, William Makepeace. "II. A Pedigree and other Family Matters". THE HISTORY OF PENDENNIS.
... what is a gentleman without his pedigree? Pendennis, by this time, had his handsomely framed and glazed, and hanging up in his drawing-room between the pictures of Codlingbury House in Somersetshire, and St. Boniface's College, Oxbridge, where he had passed the brief and happy days of his early manhood.
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- ↑ Woolf, Virginia. "Chapter 1". A room of one's own. Archived from the original on 19 January 2008. Unknown parameter
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- ↑ Southworth, Helen (2004). The Intersecting Realities and Fictions of Virginia Woolf and Colette. Ohio State University Press. p. 44. ISBN 9780814209646. Retrieved 7 September 2015. Search this book on
- ↑ Eliot, George. "LII". Middlemarch.
Hardly a week later, Duty presented itself in his study under the disguise of Fred Vincy, now returned from Omnibus College with his bachelor's degree.
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- ↑ Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Adventure of the Three Students". THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES – via Project Gutenberg.
Here it was that one evening we received a visit from an acquaintance, Mr. Hilton Soames, tutor and lecturer at the College of St. Luke's.
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