List of fictional Oxbridge colleges explained

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.^[4]

Omnibus College: in Middlemarch, Chapter 52, where Fred Vincy takes his bachelor's degree.^[5]

Pembridge College, Oxbridge: "The Passing of Sherlock Holmes", a 1948 Sherlock Holmes parody by E. V. Knox^[6]

St Luke's College: "The Adventure of the Three Students", a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle.^[7]

See also

• List of fictional Cambridge colleges
• List of fictional Oxford colleges

Notes and References

1. Book: Thackeray, William Makepeace . The History of Pendennis. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7265/7265-h/7265-h.htm#link2HCH0002. ... 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.. II. A Pedigree and other Family Matters.
2. Book: Woolf, Virginia . A room of one's own. https://web.archive.org/web/20080119114711/http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91r/chapter1.html. dead. 19 January 2008. Chapter 1.
3. Book: Southworth, Helen. The Intersecting Realities and Fictions of Virginia Woolf and Colette. 7 September 2015. 2004. Ohio State University Press. 9780814209646. 44.
4. Book: Macdonald, Chrissie . Episode 1 - Bambi . That's Anarchy! The Story of a Revolution in the World of TV Comedy . Temple House . Australia . 2002 . 79–83.
5. Book: Eliot, George. Middlemarch. LII. 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..
6. Knox . E.V. . Obituary / The passing of Serlock Holmes . The Strand . December 1948 . 116 . 696 . 77–82.
7. Book: Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Adventure of the Three Students . http://www.gutenberg.org/files/108/108-h/108-h.htm#linkH2H_4_0009. The Return of Sherlock Holmes. 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..