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Student Life in Nineteenth-Century Cambridge - John Wright's Alma Mater (Hardcover)
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Student Life in Nineteenth-Century Cambridge - John Wright's Alma Mater (Hardcover)
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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makes an important source and a vivid historical document available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.
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