Somerville College, Oxford University

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Harriet Shaw Weaver
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...
Occupation Mary Augusta Ward
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 .
Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Occupation Mary Augusta Ward
MAW sat on the Council of the recently-founded Somerville College for women.
Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press.
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Occupation Mary Augusta Ward
MAW broke with Somerville College after forming the Anti-Suffrage League .
Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press.
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Family and Intimate relationships Mary Augusta Ward
One of MAW 's younger sisters became the writer, lecturer, and photographer Ethel Arnold .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Another, Julia , who was eleven years younger than Mary Augusta, was an early graduate of Somerville College, Oxford ...
politics Mary Augusta Ward
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...
Material Conditions of Writing Doreen Wallace
Eileen Wallace (later Doreen) began writing poetry as a child, generally to console herself for unhappiness.
Shepherd, June. Doreen Wallace, 1897-1989: Writer and Social Campaigner. Edwin Mellen Press.
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At Oxford she formed, with Leon Geach and Dorothy Sayers , the Rhyme Club , whose pastime was...
Education Doreen Wallace
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.
Shepherd, June. Doreen Wallace, 1897-1989: Writer and Social Campaigner. Edwin Mellen Press.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Material Conditions of Writing Doreen Wallace
DW and Leon Geach (both students at Somerville College ) together published a poetry volume called Esques.
Leonardi, Susan J. Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville College Novelists. Rutgers University Press.
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Education Doreen Wallace
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...
Education Doreen Wallace
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...
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...
Friends, Associates Helen Waddell
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
Material Conditions of Writing Helen Waddell
As an undergraduate in Belfast, HW wrote poetry and delivered rousing addresses as President of the Christian Union .
Waddell, Helen. “Acknowledgements; Note; Introduction”. Between Two Eternities, edited by Felicitas Corrigan, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, pp. viii - ix, 1.
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During the painful years before she became a graduate student at Somerville College ...
Other Life Event Helen Taylor
HT presented John Stuart Mill 's library to Somerville College , Oxford, where it became a working collection for students.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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

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4 June 1878

Lady Margaret Hall , a women's college at Oxford University named after Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby , was founded.

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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