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.
Somerville College, Oxford University
Connections
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Friends, Associates | Harriet Shaw Weaver | Working in the left-wing bookshop early in her time at Oxford, HSW
became acquainted with Iris Murdoch
, who was then an undergraduate at Somerville College
and who frequented the shop. Weaver was finishing... |
Friends, Associates | Helen Waddell | Friends from HW
's time at Somerville
included Maude Clarke
, whom she had known as a child and whose Oxford position had been one of the incentives to go there, and archaelogist Helen Lorimer |
Friends, Associates | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
was a contemporary and close friend of Dorothy L. Sayers
, who dedicated several works to her. They include a poem about the way their shared Oxford experience was vanishing into the past (Jaeger... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Augusta Ward | One of MAW
's younger sisters became the writer, lecturer, and photographer Ethel Arnold
. |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Aldous Huxley | His mother, born Julia Arnold
, was a younger sister of Mary Augusta Ward and a niece of Matthew Arnold
. She took a first-class English honours degree at the new Somerville College, Oxford
... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Penelope Fitzgerald | PF
's mother, Christine (Hicks) Knox
, a bishop's daughter, was one of the early graduates of Somerville College, Oxford
, a moderate suffragist, and a writer (specialising in school abridgements of classic books). She... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vera Brittain | VB
met Winifred Holtby
at Somerville College
, Oxford, where each was studying after war service. Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell. 152-3 Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 143 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel Sidgwick | ES
's father, Arthur Sidgwick
, was a classical scholar who had been regarded since school and university days as brilliant. He spent many years as a master at Rugby School
before becoming a Fellow... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel Sidgwick | The younger of ES
's sisters, Margaret, did unpaid voluntary work. Rose
, her elder sister, took a first-class honours degree in history and became a distinguished academic, first at Somerville College, Oxford
, and... |
Education | Christopher St John | Christabel Marshall may probably have attended (with more than one of her sisters) Clifton High School for Girls
. She was admitted in 1894 to Somerville College, Oxford
, to read history, but did not... |
Education | Margaret Forster | |
Education | Margaret Kennedy | MK
began studying at Somerville College, Oxford
. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann. 37 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 36 |
Education | Margaret Kennedy | MK
received the equivalent of a Second Class honours degree in History from Somerville College
. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann. 41 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 36 |
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