I had a rather off night last night what with realizing that I have completely misplaced a fanfic file... Still can't find it nor any of my notes on paper about it... and, apparently, I never saved any of my research links, and now that I've gone looking for them again, I can't find any of them. Christ on an effin' bike
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College-level professors in that specific period were mostly clergymen, except for those at UCL, which was founded in the early 1830s as a "godless institution on Gower Street". You could look up individuals like Lewis Carroll or any of the vast Darwin/Galton/Wedgwood/Raverat/Huxley clan who pretty much dominated Cambridge intellectual life of the period and intermarried most confusingly ( ... )
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I had a lot of information about the King's College School, but I think I'll just have to scrounge up the materials again on that (some of it on Dante Gabriel Rosetti). Someone's edited the Wikipedia entry for KCS and has taken out some of the links I had used before when I first started researching.
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I've been writing Spike's personal history (my fanon version of it at any rate), and I had developed background information on his father's side of the family- declining landed gentry with a military background (a couple of Sir So-and-Sos of no major acclaim or distinction) leading towards Spike's father (a bit of a foppish literary type who starts out as a lecturer bachelor out of Oxford and later becomes a junior classics master for a public school before moving onto a post back at Oxford)... which may be a little bit too modern (and too American) of an idea to really fit the period or the social level Spike's family might have been at. I've been slowly dissecting all the objects in the family parlor plus William's dialogue with his mother in LMPTM to try and suss out details (details that probably never occurred to the writers or the prop people). We all know how fun that can be. XD
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Hee! XD
Lecturers at Oxford at the period were known as Dons (still are, actually) and were required to be clergymen and celibate. It wasn't until late in the Victorian period that any College permitted married dons.
That is very good to know. :D
one of the day schools (St Paul's, KCS or CLS for example) then secure a post at one of the London Colleges
I did write him at one point at KCS, so I feel better about my research skills on that one.
Yes, I over-think this stuff way too much. *g*
Don't worry, so do I. I've started posting my epic still-in-progress BtVS/Ats timeline, including my own not-quite-the-best-researched fanon material.
I'm getting my M.A. in history, and while I would love to do the Victorian Era as my first area of study, I am engaged to the French Revolution... but I keep being drawn back to 19th century London, particularly. It's endlessly fascinating.
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The Tales of the Slayers comic actually did have an English vampire named St. Just rather than Saint-Just. XD
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