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records of elite institutions will necessarily yield generations of elites. 13. These datasets include obituaries (see Munk’s Roll), collective biographies (DNB and ODNB) and matriculation albums (see A Cambridge Alumni Database, http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/Documents/acad/2016/ search-2016.html). 14. See Helen Kingstone, Victorian Narratives of the Recent Past: Memory, History, Fiction (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). 15. This list also includes (among other) writers Charles Kingsley and A. H. Clough, artists William Powell Frith and Lowes Cato Dickinson (both of whom painted portraits of their coevals), the Quaker diarist Caroline Fox and cabinetmaker James Dickinson, who produced a memoir.