Somerville College, Oxford University

MG , an open scholarship student at Somerville College , received her Oxford Honours BA in English.

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

CPG 's correspondence with Vernon Lee (on whom she was an important influence) survives among Lee's papers at Somerville College , Oxford. Scharnhorst writes that her papers once in her daughter's hands were...

WH went up to Somerville College , Oxford, as an undergraduate.

WH returned to Somerville College , Oxford, after a year out for war service, to finish her degree course in History.

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

As a member of Somerville 's Mutual Admiration Society MJ must already have been writing, since the group existed for the purpose of mutual literary encouragement. She collaborated with Dorothy Sayers in writing, and performing...

After graduating from Sheffield High School , MJ went up to Somerville College, Oxford , as a Clothworkers' Scholar (that is, on a scholarship funded by one of the traditional London guilds).

MJ travelled back to Oxford to take part in the ceremony of the first official award of Oxford University degrees to women, together with several of her Somerville College contemporaries.

Judith Pakenham attended a Catholic convent school which in the same poem about her childhood she remembers as a prison where she used to cry all night. She took her BA in modern history at...

MK began studying at Somerville College, Oxford .