Shepherd, June. Doreen Wallace, 1897-1989: Writer and Social Campaigner. Edwin Mellen Press.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Material Conditions of Writing | Doreen Wallace | Eileen Wallace (later Doreen) began writing poetry as a child, generally to console herself for unhappiness. Shepherd, June. Doreen Wallace, 1897-1989: Writer and Social Campaigner. Edwin Mellen Press. 11 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Muriel Jaeger | As a member of Somerville
's Mutual Admiration Society MJ
must already have been writing, since the group existed for the purpose of mutual literary encouragement. She collaborated with Dorothy Sayers
in writing, and performing... |
Occupation | Mary Somerville | MS
had serious artistic as well as scientific interests, and considerable skill as a painter. Landscapes and a self-portrait by her now hang at Somerville College, Oxford
. “Mary Somerville (1780 - 1872)”. askArt. |
Occupation | Lucy Boston | Lucy Wood (later LB
) left Oxford University
to serve as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, first at St Thomas's Hospital
, London, then at Addenbrookes Hospital
, Cambridge, and then a military... |
Occupation | Marghanita Laski | After graduating from Somerville
, ML
began working as a journalist. During the war she held a succession of jobs, in publishing, dairy farming, nursing, and intelligence work. After the war ended, she became a... |
Occupation | Vera Brittain | VB
left Somerville College
at the end of her first academic year to work as a VAD
. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 81 |
Occupation | Mary Augusta Ward | With Mrs Augustus Vernon Harcourt
, MAW
became inaugural secretary of the Somerville Committee
which was dedicated to the formation of a women's college at Oxford
. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 64 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. |
Occupation | Mary Augusta Ward | MAW
sat on the Council of the recently-founded Somerville College
for women. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 65 |
Occupation | Mary Augusta Ward | MAW
broke with Somerville College
after forming the Anti-Suffrage League
. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 65, 416 |
Other Life Event | Helen Taylor | HT
presented John Stuart Mill
's library to Somerville College
, Oxford, where it became a working collection for students. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Other Life Event | Winifred Holtby | In December of the same year the Winifred Holtby Memorial Library
was founded in the Western Native Township of Johannesburg, South Africa. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 339 |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Daryush | A masque entitled Demeter by Robert Bridges
was performed in the college gardens by students of Somerville, Oxford
, to celebrate the opening of their new library; it included verses by his daughter Elizabeth
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Daryush | The masque was revived at Somerville
fifty years later, on 26 June 1954, and the University of South Carolina
holds a single-sheet publication from it. |
politics | Anna Swanwick | AS
helped found Somerville College, Oxford
, and Girton College, Cambridge
. 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. |
politics | Mary Augusta Ward | Her political views continued to create breaches in her previous alliances. In addition to the rift with Somerville College
, she was ousted from the National Union of Women Workers
. Her son Arnold
also... |
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