Somerville College, Oxford University

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

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...

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...

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...

ES 's father, Arthur Sidgwick , was a classical scholar who had been regarded since school and university days as brilliant. He spent many years as a master at Rugby School before becoming a Fellow...

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...

EJS , at Somerville College , received an Oxford BA in English, having begun her degree course in classics.

She next attended, as a boarder, Casterton School in Westmorland (descendant of the Clergy Daughters' School which is infamous in connection with the Brontë sisters). She then went on to Somerville College, Oxford University .

EJS began writing poetry in early childhood because of a love of meter and rhyme. As an undergraduate at Oxford she was placing her poetry in university journals. She was one of the few women...

DLS attended Somerville College, Oxford, where she studied medieval French.

Meanwhile, as a Somerville undergraduate she wrote for the college paper, The Fritillary, and for a group which she formed and which called itself the Mutual Admiration Society. She wrote most of the...

DLS 's interest in translating began during her years at Oxford . Her financial success as detective novelist allowed her to return to it later in her career, as with her version of The Song...