Somerville College, Oxford University

The husband drew up his will in 1884, leaving the bulk of his fortune for women's education and clearly explaining why. It is women who have hitherto had the worst of life, and I therefore...

Though MBE attended, together with a male friend, a meeting of the International Working Men's Association presided over by Karl Marx , she did so more as an observer than as a sympathiser. She felt...

FPC protested against the attendance of Somerville College undergraduates at lectures by J. S. Burdon Sanderson and E. Ray Lankester , both supporters of vivisection.

FPC continued to involve herself in the anti-vivisection and suffrage movements after her move to Wales. When the Conservative government came into power in 1886 she pressed for female enfranchisement through party connections. In 1888...

MJ began her book-publishing career with four novels during the 1920s and 30s; she is one of the least known amongst the Somerville novelists who attended Oxford together at the time of the First World...

On coming down from Oxford in 1965, AO submitted to the Manchester Guardian an essay entitled On the Disadvantages of an Oxford Education. They rejected it.

At Somerville, Oxford , WH wrote for the college paper, The Fritillary. She wrote, too, the Somerville going-down or end-of-year play for 1920, which she designed to trample down all nasty little giggling...

During ER 's lifetime the leaders of both major political parties, Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee (whose regard for her was equally high), repeatedly urged her to accept honours of various kinds, but she refused...

MS outstanding intellectual achievements were memorialised in the foundation after her death of Somerville College as an Oxford University women's college. In 2017 she was honoured with an image (in a fetching bonnet) on the...

NB was an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford (where she was an undergraduate). She was President of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists . She was made CBE in 1995, and was a...

Janet turns to suffrage politics in frustration with her life of service to her husband, a very traditional clergyman. Their son Denis meets and falls in love with Ruth when both are Oxford undergraduates (Ruth...

While she was a student at Chiswick Polytechnic , Ann Titmuss (later AO ) had an article entitled Socialism and Me printed in the college bulletin. At Oxford she wrote poems to her future husband...

CBR gave at Somerville College, Oxford , the James Bryce Memorial Lecture later printed in Invisible Author: Last Essays as A Writer's Constraints.

As an undergraduate at Somerville College , MK wrote two of the end-of-year Going-Down plays. She contributed to the college magazine, The Fritillary, a parody of a tutorial.

She wrote in bed in the mornings, completing 50,000 words in three months and finding that she had never been so happy. The work sold about 4,000 copies in Britain and America, and...