Somerville College, Oxford University

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...

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...

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...

AS helped found Somerville College, Oxford , and Girton College, Cambridge .

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...

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...

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 .

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.

HT presented John Stuart Mill 's library to Somerville College , Oxford, where it became a working collection for students.

In December of the same year the Winifred Holtby Memorial Library was founded in the Western Native Township of Johannesburg, South Africa.WH 's will endowed Somerville College with the Dorothy McCalman Fund...

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 .