List of fictional Oxbridge colleges

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.

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 the Footlights.
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]

See also

References
  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.
  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. 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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