Many writers have lived in Cambridge, sometimes when they were students. Some just visit ("Cambridge made me very black and down. I cannot bear its smell of rottenness" DH Lawrence). It's not easy determining the exact addresses where they stayed. Here's a list of some.
- Rupert Brooke - The Orchard, Grantchester
- Dickens - stayed at the Eagle
- EM Forster - staircase A, King's
- Gide - Byron's Lodge, Grantchester
- Thom Gunn - Whewell's Court
- Hughes+Plath - 55 Eltisley Avenue
- Henry James - 8 Trumpington St
- Marlowe - staircase P, Corpus Christi
- Milton - staircase M3, Christs
- Nabokov - 2 Trinity Lane
- Pepys - stayed at the Falcon Inn, Petty Cury
- Plath - Whitstead Hostel, Barton Rd
- Tennyson - 57 Corpus Buildings, Trumpington St and 12 Rose Crescent
- Dylan Thomas - stayed a night at 274a Mill Rd
- Wordsworth - staircase F, St Johns
If Shakespeare performed in Cambridge when his company visited, it would have been at The Eagle
The information's from - the web, "Literary Cambridge" by Lisa Sargood (Sutton Publishing, 2004), and "A literary history of Cambridge" by Graham Chainey (Pevensey Press, 1985)
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