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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. 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. 122 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 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 | 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 | 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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 | 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. 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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Augusta Ward | One of MAW
's younger sisters became the writer, lecturer, and photographer Ethel Arnold
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Roger Fry | His elder sister Joan Mary Fry
became a social reformer. His younger sister Margery Fry
became a distinguished feminist, social reformer, and Principal of Somerville College, Oxford
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Joan Mary Fry, Margery Fry |
Family and Intimate relationships | Walter Pater | WP
was particularly close to his unmarried sisters. Both women were accomplished in their own right. The elder sister, Hester
, became known as a talented embroiderer and friend to Mary Augusta Ward
and Virginia Woolf |
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