Somerville College, Oxford University

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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
The work sold about 4,000 copies in Britain and America, and...
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...
Reception Nina Bawden
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...
politics Matilda Betham-Edwards
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...
Occupation Lucy Boston
Lucy Wood (later LB ) left Oxford University to serve as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, first at St Thomas's Hospital , London, then at Addenbrookes Hospital , Cambridge, and then a military...
Education Lucy Boston
LB was educated first at local schools at Southport and Arnside, then at Downs School, Seaford,Sussex, and then at a Quaker school in Surrey. She went to a finishing school in Paris before...
Education Elizabeth Bowen
The school was run by Olive Willis , a graduate of Somerville College , Oxford, a very strong-willed and influential woman. The school was slightly irregular and amateurish,
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf.
39
but the pupils were expected to...
Education Vera Brittain
VB began her first year at Somerville College , Oxford, two months after the outbreak of the first world war.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
64-5
Occupation Vera Brittain
VB left Somerville College at the end of her first academic year to work as a VAD .
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
81
Education Vera Brittain
Her VAD service completed, VB returned to Somerville College , Oxford, to finish her degree course.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
138
Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell.
138
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
Literary Setting Vera Brittain
The Dark Tide is set partly at Drayton College, VB 's fictionalised version of Somerville College , before it follows Drayton's graduates out into the world. The two main characters are Daphne Lethbridge, based...
Literary responses Vera Brittain
The Dark Tide had a hostile reception. The Daily Express called it an insult to women's colleges,
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
182
and both dons and students of Somerville College were uncomfortable with VB 's fictionalized but still recognizable...
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...
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.
228

Timeline

4 June 1878: Lady Margaret Hall, a women's college at...

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4 June 1878

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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