The Cambridge Apostles, 18201914
Subtitle: Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 13, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780521572132
Subjects: Association: clubs, societies; British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Higher; Intellectual History; Learned Societies And Institutions; Western Europe - General; History; History - General History; History: World; British Isles; Cambridgeshire; Europe - Great Britain - General; History / Great Britain; Cambridge Apostles (Society); Civilization; 19th century; England; Intellectual life
First sentence: In 1820, George Tomlinson, who would become Bishop of Gibraltar, and eleven other members of St John's College formed the Cambridge Conversazione Society.