Somerville College, Oxford University

ML was awarded BA honours, third class, at the end of her course at Somerville College, Oxford , where she studied English Language and Literature with particular focus on Old and Middle English.

ML dedicated to Mary Lascelles (who had taught her at Somerville College ) her bio- critical work on three Victorian writers for children: Mrs. Ewing , Mrs. Molesworth , and Mrs. Hodgson Burnett.

After graduating from Somerville , ML began working as a journalist. During the war she held a succession of jobs, in publishing, dairy farming, nursing, and intelligence work. After the war ended, she became a...

MK began studying at Somerville College, Oxford .

MK received the equivalent of a Second Class honours degree in History from Somerville College .

The death in action of MK 's cousin Horas Kennedy precipitated a one-year leave for Margaret from Somerville College on grounds of illness.

Three years after MK had earned her second-class history degree from Somerville College , she published a volume of French history commissioned from her by A. L. Smith , the Master of Balliol: A Century...

As an undergraduate at Somerville College , MK wrote two of the end-of-year Going-Down plays. She contributed to the college magazine, The Fritillary, a parody of a tutorial.

MK dedicated her final novel, Not in the Calendar, 1964, to a Somerville friend, and gave it the subtitle The Story of a Friendship.

Judith Pakenham attended a Catholic convent school which in the same poem about her childhood she remembers as a prison where she used to cry all night. She took her BA in modern history at...

After graduating from Sheffield High School , MJ went up to Somerville College, Oxford , as a Clothworkers' Scholar (that is, on a scholarship funded by one of the traditional London guilds).

MJ travelled back to Oxford to take part in the ceremony of the first official award of Oxford University degrees to women, together with several of her Somerville College contemporaries.

MJ began her book-publishing career with four novels during the 1920s and 30s; she is one of the least known amongst the Somerville novelists who attended Oxford together at the time of the First World...

MJ was a contemporary and close friend of Dorothy L. Sayers , who dedicated several works to her. They include a poem about the way their shared Oxford experience was vanishing into the past (Jaeger...

As a member of Somerville 's Mutual Admiration Society MJ must already have been writing, since the group existed for the purpose of mutual literary encouragement. She collaborated with Dorothy Sayers in writing, and performing...