{"product_id":"student-life-in-nineteenth-century-cambridge-john-wright-s-alma-mater-9781804130278","title":"Student Life in Nineteenth-Century Cambridge:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Wright's \u003cem\u003eAlma Mater\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThis 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 This new edition makes an important source and a vivid historical document available for the first time.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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWright'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures \u003cbr\u003e Editorial Preface \u003cbr\u003e Editorial Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eALMA MATER; OR, SEVEN YEARS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE \u003cbr\u003e Preface \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e 1 First year \u003cbr\u003e 2 Chapel scenes \u003cbr\u003e 3 A tour of Trinity \u003cbr\u003e 4 A tour of Cambridge \u003cbr\u003e 5 Lectures \u003cbr\u003e 6 Christmas vacation 1814–15 \u003cbr\u003e 7 Lent term 1815 \u003cbr\u003e 8 Easter vacation 1815 \u003cbr\u003e 9 Easter term 1815 105 \u003cbr\u003e 10 Michaelmas term 1815: the second year \u003cbr\u003e 11 Christmas 1815 and Lent Term 1816 \u003cbr\u003e 12 Easter vacation 1816 \u003cbr\u003e 13 Long vacation 1816; fellowship examination, September 1816 \u003cbr\u003e 14 Michaelmas term 1816 \u003cbr\u003e 15 Christmas vacation 1816–17 \u003cbr\u003e 16 Lent term 1817 \u003cbr\u003e 17 Easter term 1817 \u003cbr\u003e 18 Long vacation 1817 \u003cbr\u003e 19 Michaelmas term 1818, Lent term 1819 \u003cbr\u003e 20 After the Tripos \u003cbr\u003e 21 Return to Trinity, March 1820 \u003cbr\u003e 22 Advice to parents \u003cbr\u003e 23 The autobiography resumed [1820?] \u003cbr\u003e 24 A visit to London \u003cbr\u003e 25 Back to Cambridge \u003cbr\u003e 26 Debtors’ prison \u003cbr\u003e 27 Grub Street\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Exeter Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51360146555223,"sku":"9781804130278","price":71.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781804130278.jpg?v=1754126803","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/student-life-in-nineteenth-century-cambridge-john-wright-s-alma-mater-9781804130278","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}