The King’s School has featured in numerous works by former pupils and others – both autobiographical and fictional. Their opinions of the place have varied.
Here is a selection:
Anne Lefroy, On seeing some school-boys playing in the Green-court, Canterbury
Samuel Egerton Brydges, Autobiography
R. H. Barham, The Ingoldsby Legends: Nell Cook: A King’s Scholar’s Story
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
G. A. Henty, Jack Archer: A Tale of the Crimea
Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
Jocelyn Brooke, The Military Orchid
Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts
Edward Lucie-Smith, A Burnt Child