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.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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... |
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 |
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 | Dorothy L. Sayers | DLS
attended Somerville College, Oxford, where she studied medieval French. Reynolds, Barbara. Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul. Hodder and Stoughton, 1993. 45, 62 Brabazon, James. Dorothy L. Sayers. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1981. 47, 48 |
Education | Doreen Wallace | DW
took the equivalent of a BA Honours degree in English at Somerville College
, Oxford, just the year before women were actually first admitted to Oxford degrees. Shepherd, June. Doreen Wallace, 1897-1989: Writer and Social Campaigner. Edwin Mellen Press, 2000. 25 Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Education | Lucy Boston | LB
was educated first at local schools at Southport and Arnside, then at Downs School, Seaford,Sussex, and then at a Quaker school in Surrey. She went to a finishing school in Paris before... |
Education | Elizabeth Bowen | The school was run by Olive Willis
, a graduate of Somerville College
, Oxford, a very strong-willed and influential woman. The school was slightly irregular and amateurish, Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. 39 |
Education | Doreen Wallace | Her time at Malvern was probably financed by her paternal aunts. She changed her name to Doreen because her schoolmates included too many Eileens, and learned tennis, debating, and (her favourite subjects) literature, painting, music... |
Education | Muriel Jaeger | After graduating from Sheffield High School
, MJ
went up to Somerville College, Oxford
, as a Clothworkers' Scholar (that is, on a scholarship funded by one of the traditional London guilds). Reynolds, Barbara. “"‘Dear Jim
’ The Reconstruction of A Friendship”. Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review, Vol. 17 , Marion E. Wade Center of Wheaton College, pp. 47-59. 48 |
Education | Rose Macaulay | RM
's godfather, Reginald Heber Macaulay
(Uncle Regi), paid for her to enter Somerville College, Oxford
, to read Modern History. Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray, 1991. 61-2, 79 Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins, 1972. 42-3 |
Education | Vera Brittain | VB
began her first year at Somerville College
, Oxford, two months after the outbreak of the first world war. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995. 64-5 |
Education | E. J. Scovell | EJS
, at Somerville College
, received an Oxford BA in English, having begun her degree course in classics. Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge, 1996. 122 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | Doreen Wallace | DW
went up to Somerville College
on a bursary and an exhibition (each a form of scholarship). The university was much changed by the absence of men at the war, and Somerville's buildings had been... |
Education | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
travelled back to Oxford to take part in the ceremony of the first official award of Oxford University degrees to women, together with several of her Somerville College
contemporaries. Reynolds, Barbara. “"‘Dear Jim
’ The Reconstruction of A Friendship”. Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review, Vol. 17 , Marion E. Wade Center of Wheaton College, pp. 47-59. 53 |
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