Somerville College, Oxford University

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Education Christine Brooke-Rose
CBR studied for a BA in English literature and philology at Somerville College, Oxford .
Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press.
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Education Maggie Gee
MG , an open scholarship student at Somerville College , received her Oxford Honours BA in English.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Education Maggie Gee
MG gives a very funny account of being interviewed for a place at Cambridge by Queenie Leavis , whose name she did not recognise, and talking confidently about Keats in ignorance of the way F. R. Leavis
Education Eleanor Rathbone
ER went up to Somerville College, Oxford , as an undergraduate. She graduated in 1896, having earned a second-class BA degree in Philosophy (though women did not receive Oxford degrees until 1920).
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press.
Education A. S. Byatt
Antonia Drabble (later ASB ) began research on Renaissance allegory at Somerville College , Oxford.
Kelly, Kathleen Coyne. A.S. Byatt. Twayne.
3
Education Nina Bawden
Nina Bawden went up to a wartime Oxford, in which No bells rang . . . there was almost no traffic, and there were far fewer undergraduates than in normal times. She was a member...
Education Catherine Byron
Having attended Somerville College, Oxford University , Catherine Greenfield (later CB ) received her BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature.
“English Research Team: Catherine Byron”. Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham Institute for English Research.
Byron, Catherine. Emails about Catherine Byron to Jane Haslett.
Education Helen Waddell
HW enrolled as a postgraduate student at Somerville College, Oxford , in November 1920, but never finished either the thesis or the residence requirements for her D.Phil. She developed at this stage an over-riding interest...
Education Winifred Holtby
WH went up to Somerville College , Oxford, as an undergraduate.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
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Education Marghanita Laski
ML was awarded BA honours, third class, at the end of her course at Somerville College, Oxford , where she studied English Language and Literature with particular focus on Old and Middle English.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Education Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
Margaret Haig Thomas (later MHVR ) attended Somerville College at Oxford for a single year.
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. This Was My World. Macmillan.
93
Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press.
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Education Catherine Byron
Catherine Greenfield (later CB ) received her MPhil in Medieval Literature from Oxford University, where she had pursued her graduate studies at Somerville College .
“English Research Team: Catherine Byron”. Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham Institute for English Research.
Byron, Catherine. Emails about Catherine Byron to Jane Haslett.
Education Winifred Holtby
WH returned to Somerville College , Oxford, after a year out for war service, to finish her degree course in History.
Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago.
98, 100
Education Michèle Roberts
Eighteen-year-old MR left home for Somerville , one of the Oxford women's colleges, where three years later she took her BA, Second Class, in English Language and Literature.
Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago.
3,11-12
Michèle Roberts. http://www.micheleroberts.co.uk/index.htm.
Education Dorothy L. Sayers
DLS attended Somerville College, Oxford, where she studied medieval French.
Reynolds, Barbara. Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul. Hodder and Stoughton.
45, 62
Brabazon, James. Dorothy L. Sayers. Charles Scribner’s Sons.
47, 48

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