List of fictional Oxbridge colleges
- 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.
*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.
ee also
* List of fictional Cambridge colleges
* List of fictional Oxford colleges
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