Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge.
Somerville College, Oxford University
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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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge. 122 |
Education | Iris Murdoch | IM
went up to Somerville College
, Oxford, on an Open Exhibition. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins. 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. 138 Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell. 138 |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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. 36, 48 |
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... |
Education | Margaret Forster | |
Education | Margaret Kennedy | MK
began studying at Somerville College, Oxford
. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann. 37 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 36 |
Education | Margaret Kennedy | MK
received the equivalent of a Second Class honours degree in History from Somerville College
. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann. 41 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 36 |
Education | Christine Brooke-Rose | CBR
studied for a BA in English literature and philology at Somerville College, Oxford
. Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press. 228 |
Education | Maggie Gee | MG
, an open scholarship student at Somerville College
, received her Oxford Honours BA in English. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 207 |
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