Somerville College, Oxford University

DW went up to Somerville College on a bursary and an exhibition (each a form of scholarship). The university was much changed by the absence of men at the war, and Somerville's buildings had been...

Eileen Wallace (later Doreen) began writing poetry as a child, generally to console herself for unhappiness. At Oxford she formed, with Leon Geach and Dorothy Sayers , the Rhyme Club , whose pastime was...

With Mrs Augustus Vernon Harcourt , MAW became inaugural secretary of the Somerville Committee which was dedicated to the formation of a women's college at Oxford .

MAW sat on the Council of the recently-founded Somerville College for women.

MAW broke with Somerville College after forming the Anti-Suffrage League .

One of MAW 's younger sisters became the writer, lecturer, and photographer Ethel Arnold . Another, Julia , who was eleven years younger than Mary Augusta, was an early graduate of Somerville College, Oxford ...

Her political views continued to create breaches in her previous alliances. In addition to the rift with Somerville College , she was ousted from the National Union of Women Workers . Her son Arnold also...

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...