Somerville College, Oxford University

A masque entitled Demeter by Robert Bridges was performed in the college gardens by students of Somerville, Oxford , to celebrate the opening of their new library; it included verses by his daughter Elizabeth .

The masque was revived at Somerville fifty years later, on 26 June 1954, and the University of South Carolina holds a single-sheet publication from it.

FPC protested against the attendance of Somerville College undergraduates at lectures by J. S. Burdon Sanderson and E. Ray Lankester , both supporters of vivisection.

FPC continued to involve herself in the anti-vivisection and suffrage movements after her move to Wales. When the Conservative government came into power in 1886 she pressed for female enfranchisement through party connections. In 1888...

Having attended Somerville College, Oxford University , Catherine Greenfield (later CB ) received her BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature.

Catherine Greenfield (later CB ) received her MPhil in Medieval Literature from Oxford University, where she had pursued her graduate studies at Somerville College .

Antonia Drabble (later ASB ) began research on Renaissance allegory at Somerville College , Oxford.

CBR studied for a BA in English literature and philology at Somerville College, Oxford .

CBR gave at Somerville College, Oxford , the James Bryce Memorial Lecture later printed in Invisible Author: Last Essays as A Writer's Constraints.

VB began her first year at Somerville College , Oxford, two months after the outbreak of the first world war.

VB left Somerville College at the end of her first academic year to work as a VAD .

Her VAD service completed, VB returned to Somerville College , Oxford, to finish her degree course.

VB met Winifred Holtby at Somerville College , Oxford, where each was studying after war service.

The Dark Tide is set partly at Drayton College, VB 's fictionalised version of Somerville College , before it follows Drayton's graduates out into the world. The two main characters are Daphne Lethbridge, based...

The Dark Tide had a hostile reception. The Daily Express called it an insult to women's colleges, and both dons and students of Somerville College were uncomfortable with VB 's fictionalized but still recognizable...