Somerville College, Oxford University

His mother, born Julia Arnold , was a younger sister of Mary Augusta Ward and a niece of Matthew Arnold . She took a first-class English honours degree at the new Somerville College, Oxford ...

WH went up to Somerville College , Oxford, as an undergraduate.

WH returned to Somerville College , Oxford, after a year out for war service, to finish her degree course in History.

In December of the same year the Winifred Holtby Memorial Library was founded in the Western Native Township of Johannesburg, South Africa.WH 's will endowed Somerville College with the Dorothy McCalman Fund...

At Somerville, Oxford , WH wrote for the college paper, The Fritillary. She wrote, too, the Somerville going-down or end-of-year play for 1920, which she designed to trample down all nasty little giggling...

CPG 's correspondence with Vernon Lee (on whom she was an important influence) survives among Lee's papers at Somerville College , Oxford. Scharnhorst writes that her papers once in her daughter's hands were...

MG , an open scholarship student at Somerville College , received her Oxford Honours BA in English.

MG gives a very funny account of being interviewed for a place at Cambridge by Queenie Leavis , whose name she did not recognise, and talking confidently about Keats in ignorance of the way F. R. Leavis

His elder sister Joan Mary Fry became a social reformer. His younger sister Margery Fry became a distinguished feminist, social reformer, and Principal of Somerville College, Oxford .

Having sat the Oxford and Cambridge entrance exams at her school in Carlisle (taking the gamble of an extra term at school after her A-levels to do so, though if she failed to make Oxbridge...

MF gained her Honours BA in modern history from Somerville College, Oxford .

MF loved Carlisle Girls' High School in a way that made my love of all school from the beginning seem a feeble thing—although she quickly realised her deficiencies, like not having heard of Dickens

Penelope Knox (later PF ) received a first-class Honours BA in English from Somerville , Oxford, her mother's old college. Her degree was what is called a congratulatory first.

PF 's mother, Christine (Hicks) Knox , a bishop's daughter, was one of the early graduates of Somerville College, Oxford , a moderate suffragist, and a writer (specialising in school abridgements of classic books). She...

She was buried in Ellen Braysher 's family plot at Henbury, just north of Westbury-on-Trym, her grave appropriately marked with an Egyptian obelisk. She bequeathed her egyptological library and collection of artefacts to...