Somerville College, Oxford University

Eighteen-year-old MR left home for Somerville , one of the Oxford women's colleges, where three years later she took her BA, Second Class, in English Language and Literature.

ER went up to Somerville College, Oxford , as an undergraduate. She graduated in 1896, having earned a second-class BA degree in Philosophy (though women did not receive Oxford degrees until 1920).

During ER 's lifetime the leaders of both major political parties, Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee (whose regard for her was equally high), repeatedly urged her to accept honours of various kinds, but she refused...

Money from the Pfeiffer trust was also given to Newnham , Girton , and Somerville College s, and many other institutions and agencies promoting women's education, including the Maria Grey Training College and the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women

WP was particularly close to his unmarried sisters. Both women were accomplished in their own right. The elder sister, Hester , became known as a talented embroiderer and friend to Mary Augusta Ward and Virginia Woolf

While she was a student at Chiswick Polytechnic , Ann Titmuss (later AO ) had an article entitled Socialism and Me printed in the college bulletin. At Oxford she wrote poems to her future husband...

On coming down from Oxford in 1965, AO submitted to the Manchester Guardian an essay entitled On the Disadvantages of an Oxford Education. They rejected it.

Ann Titmuss (later AO ) studied at Somerville College, Oxford ; she took an Honours BA, Second Class, in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics.

KN attended the highly respected Mary Datchelor School before moving on to King's College , London, for a year. After securing an open exhibition in English (the only subject I could get up...

IM went up to Somerville College , Oxford, on an Open Exhibition.

WM had a Shetlander's particular interest in the Auvergnat language: a local dialect of Occitan (which itself proved to be the historically non-dominant form of French). The owners and operators of the Samson Press were...

Helen Taylor arranged for the gift in 1905 of his books (those that were in England, not in Avignon, when he died) to Somerville College, Oxford , where they make a valued and now much-studied...

Margaret Haig Thomas (later MHVR ) attended Somerville College at Oxford for a single year.

RM 's godfather, Reginald Heber Macaulay (Uncle Regi), paid for her to enter Somerville College, Oxford , to read Modern History.

Important collections of her papers are held at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, at Somerville College , Oxford, and at the British Institute in Florence.