List of fictional Oxbridge colleges

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This is a list of fictional colleges of either:

  1. the universities referred to collectively as Oxbridge, but where the specific university is not specified or known;
  2. fictional institutions spanning both Oxford and Cambridge universities; or
  3. 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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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Woolf, Virginia. "Chapter 1". A room of one's own. Archived from the original on 19 January 2008.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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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