Student Life in Nineteenth-Century Cambridge: John Wright's Alma Mater (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781804130278)

This book tells the story of John Wright, a talented but poor student at Cambridge who was deprived of success and impelled to make a living as hack writer in London, where he was often imprisoned for debt. His memoir, along with the in-depth commentary and detailed scholarly notes presented here, offers extraordinary reading.