Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Somerville College, Oxford University
Connections
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Wealth and Poverty | Helen Taylor | Following Mill
's death, HT
inherited the house in Avignon which he had bought in order to be close to her mother
's grave. |
Wealth and Poverty | John Stuart Mill | Helen Taylor
arranged for the gift in 1905 of his books (those that were in England, not in Avignon, when he died) to Somerville College, Oxford
, where they make a valued and now much-studied... |
Wealth and Poverty | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | Money from the Pfeiffer trust was also given to Newnham
, Girton
, and Somerville College
s, and many other institutions and agencies promoting women's education, including the Maria Grey Training College
and the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women |
Textual Production | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | CPG
's correspondence with Vernon Lee
(on whom she was an important influence) survives among Lee's papers at Somerville College
, Oxford. Zorn, Christa. Vernon Lee: Aesthetics, History, and the Victorian Female Intellectual. Ohio University Press. 182n9 |
Textual Production | Margaret Kennedy | 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. Leonardi, Susan J. Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville College Novelists. Rutgers University Press. 55 |
Textual Production | Lady Cynthia Asquith | She wrote in bed in the mornings, completing 50,000 words in three months and finding that she had never been so happy. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton. 283 |
Textual Production | Vernon Lee | Important collections of her papers are held at Colby College
in Waterville, Maine, at Somerville College
, Oxford, and at the British Institute
in Florence. Zorn, Christa. Vernon Lee: Aesthetics, History, and the Victorian Female Intellectual. Ohio University Press. 195 |
Textual Production | Dorothy L. Sayers | Meanwhile, as a Somerville
undergraduate she wrote for the college paper, The Fritillary, and for a group which she formed and which called itself the Mutual Admiration Society. She wrote most of the... |
Textual Production | Willa Muir | WM
had a Shetlander's particular interest in the Auvergnat language: a local dialect of Occitan (which itself proved to be the historically non-dominant form of French). The owners and operators of the Samson Press were... |
Textual Production | E. J. Scovell | |
Textual Production | Ann Oakley | While she was a student at Chiswick Polytechnic
, Ann Titmuss
(later AO
) had an article entitled Socialism and Me printed in the college bulletin. 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. |
Textual Production | Christine Brooke-Rose | CBR
gave at Somerville College, Oxford
, the James Bryce Memorial Lecture later printed in Invisible Author: Last Essays as A Writer's Constraints. Brooke-Rose, Christine. Invisible Author: Last Essays. Ohio State University Press. 36n |
Textual Features | Vera Brittain | 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... |
Reception | Mary Somerville | 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... |
Reception | Eleanor Rathbone | 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... |
Timeline
4 June 1878: Lady Margaret Hall, a women's college at...
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4 June 1878
Lady Margaret Hall
, a women's college at Oxford University
named after Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby
, was founded.
October 1879: Somerville College, one of the two first...
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October 1879
Somerville College
, one of the two first residential women's colleges at Oxford University, opened its doors to students.
1889: Cornelia Sorabji, the first woman law student...
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1889
Cornelia Sorabji
, the first woman law student at a British university, enrolled at Somerville College
, Oxford
.
About September 1936: British haemotologist Janet Vaughan realised...
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About September 1936
British haemotologist Janet Vaughan
realised from work during the Spanish Civil War with the Committee for Spanish Medical Aid
that blood transfusions could be successfully made with stored blood.
21 April 1958: Margery Fry died as almost a national celebrity:...
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21 April 1958
Margery Fry
died as almost a national celebrity: criminal justice reformer, prison reformer, campaigner for victims' compensation, educationalist (briefly Principal of Somerville College
), writer on children's care and development, and latterly broadcaster (a regular...
31 October 1984: Indira Gandhi, who had been Prime Minister...
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31 October 1984
Indira Gandhi
, who had been Prime Minister of India with only one short break since 1967, was assassinated, shot down in her garden by two of her body-guards who were Sikhs, in retaliation for...
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