List of fictional Oxbridge colleges
This is a list of fictional colleges of either:
- the universities referred to collectively as Oxbridge, but where the specific university is not specified or known;
- fictional institutions spanning both Oxford and Cambridge universities; or
- a fictional Oxbridge University
- Boniface College, Oxbridge
- Pendennis by William Thackeray, inspired by his time at Cambridge and home to the poet Sprott.
- 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.
- Footlights College, Oxbridge
- from which came a team of participants in an imitation of University Challenge in an episode of the 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.
- Omnibus College
- in Middlemarch, Chapter 52, where Fred Vincy takes his bachelor's degree
- 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.
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.
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