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Victorians were appalled, but the Lawrence sisters saw their duty and did it. Nellie, Millie and Dollie Lawrence thought that young English ladies were too delicately nurtured; what they needed was a more robust schooling-the kind Eton gave to boys. On a breeze-bathed seacoast near Brighton, in 1885, the sisters built their new Roedean (rhymes with so keen) School...
West Europe, Ltd. Connolly's less agreeable qualities include a tone of pettish portentousness into which he falls when writing of philosophical or religious matters that he can taste but cannot fathom. At Eton little Cyril preserved a pious air in chapel, though reading his blackbound Petronius instead of the prayer book; in more adult ways he has continued...
Osbert was packed off early to the first of a series of fashionable schools and wound up, of course, at Eton. As he remembers them, they were all so horrible that he reviews the experience with "insuperable repugnance." He was highly unpopular with other boys, and, in turn, loathed both them and the masters. One of his contemporaries was Lord Digby's son, who frequently received a box of orchids from the family conservatory. Osbert sometimes got an orchid to wear in his buttonhole; he is "still grateful," he says, "for the magic with which these flowers temporarily touched...
Plumbing Politics. A less talented and engaging figure might not have survived Strachey's political shiftings. Son of John St. Loe Strachey, noted Tory editor of The Spectator, he was schooled at Eton and Oxford, became one of Labor's "wild young men" in the '20s. Breaking violently away in 1931, young John was chief lieutenant for Sir Oswald Mosley when Mosley was not quite a fascist...
Under his well-cultivated Eton and Cambridge charm, Keynes had the roving, many-sided spirit of an Elizabethan. His interests ranged from banking to the Bloomsbury artistic set, his hobbies from bibliography to the ballet. But the world would remember him as an economist with ideas as seminal as Adam Smith...