Somerville College, Oxford University

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...

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 .

After her death, much of MS 's library was presented to the Ladies' College at Hitchin (now Girton College , Cambridge), and in 1879 Somerville College at Oxford University was named after her.Oxford

MS outstanding intellectual achievements were memorialised in the foundation after her death of Somerville College as an Oxford University women's college. In 2017 she was honoured with an image (in a fetching bonnet) on the...

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...

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

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...

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

Following Mill 's death, HT inherited the house in Avignon which he had bought in order to be close to her mother 's grave. She arranged for the presentation in 1905 to Somerville College, Oxford

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...

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

As an undergraduate in Belfast, HW wrote poetry and delivered rousing addresses as President of the Christian Union . During the painful years before she became a graduate student at Somerville College ...

DW took the equivalent of a BA Honours degree in English at Somerville College , Oxford, just the year before women were actually first admitted to Oxford degrees.

DW and Leon Geach (both students at Somerville College ) together published a poetry volume called Esques.

Her time at Malvern was probably financed by her paternal aunts. She changed her name to Doreen because her schoolmates included too many Eileens, and learned tennis, debating, and (her favourite subjects) literature, painting, music...