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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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death | Mary Somerville | After her death, much of MS
's library was presented to the Ladies' College at Hitchin (now Girton College
, Cambridge), and in 1879 Somerville College
at Oxford University was named after her. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, 1987, pp. 208 - 16. 212 |
death | Amelia B. Edwards | She was buried in Ellen Braysher
's family plot at Henbury, just north of Westbury-on-Trym, her grave appropriately marked with an Egyptian obelisk. She bequeathed her egyptological library and collection of artefacts to... |
Dedications | Margaret Kennedy | MK
dedicated her final novel, Not in the Calendar, 1964, to a Somerville
friend, and gave it the subtitle The Story of a Friendship. |
Dedications | Marghanita Laski | ML
dedicated to Mary Lascelles
(who had taught her at Somerville College
) her bio- critical work on three Victorian writers for children: Mrs. Ewing
, Mrs. Molesworth
, and Mrs. Hodgson Burnett. Laski, Marghanita. Mrs. Ewing, Mrs. Molesworth, and Mrs. Hodgson Burnett. A. Barker, 1950. prelims Maxwell, Mrs. “Ladies of Quality”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 2528, p. 438. 438 |
Education | E. J. Scovell | She next attended, as a boarder, Casterton School in Westmorland (descendant of the Clergy Daughters' School which is infamous in connection with the Brontë sisters). Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge, 1996. 122 |
Education | Penelope Fitzgerald | Penelope Knox (later PF
) received a first-class Honours BA in English from Somerville
, Oxford, her mother's old college. Her degree was what is called a congratulatory first. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Education | Iris Murdoch | IM
went up to Somerville College
, Oxford, on an Open Exhibition. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002. 78 |
Education | Vera Brittain | Her VAD service completed, VB
returned to Somerville College
, Oxford, to finish her degree course. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995. 138 Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell, 1996. 138 |
Education | Kathleen Nott | KN
attended the highly respected Mary Datchelor School
before moving on to King's College
, London, for a year. After securing an open exhibition in English (the only subject I could get up... |
Education | Margaret Forster | Having sat the Oxford and Cambridge entrance exams at her school in Carlisle (taking the gamble of an extra term at school after her A-levels to do so, though if she failed to make Oxbridge... |
Education | Judith Kazantzis | Judith Pakenham
attended a Catholic convent school which in the same poem about her childhood she remembers as a prison where she used to cry all night. She took her BA in modern history at... |
Education | Ann Oakley | Ann Titmuss (later AO
) studied at Somerville College, Oxford
; she took an Honours BA, Second Class, in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. Oakley, Ann. Taking It like a Woman. Flamingo, 1992. 36, 48 |
Education | Margaret Forster | MF
gained her Honours BA in modern history from Somerville College, Oxford
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 271 |
Education | Margaret Kennedy | MK
began studying at Somerville College, Oxford
. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann, 1983. 37 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 36 |
Education | Christopher St John | Christabel Marshall may probably have attended (with more than one of her sisters) Clifton High School for Girls
. She was admitted in 1894 to Somerville College, Oxford
, to read history, but did not... |