Rhondda, Margaret Haig, Viscountess. This Was My World. Macmillan, 1933.
93
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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | Margaret Haig Thomas (later MHVR
) attended Somerville College
at Oxford for a single year. Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press, 1991. 16-18 |
| Education | Ethel M. Arnold | The school, which was populated by the daughters of Oxford dons who had recently been allowed to marry and have families, had a feminist atmosphere. The students debated topics like rational dress and women’s education... |
| Textual Production | Lady Cynthia Asquith | She wrote in bed in the mornings, completing 50,000 words in three months and finding that she had never been so happy. qtd. in Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987. 283 |
| Education | Nina Bawden | Nina Bawden went up to a wartime Oxford, in which No bells rang . . . there was almost no traffic, and there were far fewer undergraduates than in normal times. She was a member... |
| Reception | Nina Bawden | NB
was an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford
(where she was an undergraduate). She was President of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists
. She was made CBE in 1995, and was a... |
| politics | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Though MBE
attended, together with a male friend, a meeting of the International Working Men's Association
presided over by Karl Marx
, she did so more as an observer than as a sympathiser. She felt... |
| Occupation | Lucy Boston | Lucy Wood (later LB
) left Oxford University
to serve as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, first at St Thomas's Hospital
, London, then at Addenbrookes Hospital
, Cambridge, and then a military... |
| Education | Lucy Boston | LB
was educated first at local schools at Southport and Arnside, then at Downs School, Seaford,Sussex, and then at a Quaker school in Surrey. She went to a finishing school in Paris before... |
| Education | Elizabeth Bowen | The school was run by Olive Willis
, a graduate of Somerville College
, Oxford, a very strong-willed and influential woman. The school was slightly irregular and amateurish, Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. 39 |
| Education | Vera Brittain | VB
began her first year at Somerville College
, Oxford, two months after the outbreak of the first world war. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995. 64-5 |
| Occupation | Vera Brittain | VB
left Somerville College
at the end of her first academic year to work as a VAD
. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995. 81 |
| Education | Vera Brittain | Her VAD service completed, VB
returned to Somerville College
, Oxford, to finish her degree course. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995. 138 Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell, 1996. 138 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Vera Brittain | VB
met Winifred Holtby
at Somerville College
, Oxford, where each was studying after war service. Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell, 1996. 152-3 Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995. 143 |
| Literary Setting | Vera Brittain | 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... |
| Literary responses | Vera Brittain | The Dark Tide had a hostile reception. The Daily Express called it an insult to women's colleges, qtd. in Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995. 182 |
Timeline
4 June 1878: Lady Margaret Hall, a women's college at...
Building item
4 June 1878
Lady Margaret Hall
, a women's college at Oxford University
named after Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby
, was founded.
Grier, Miss L. “Women’s Education at Oxford”. Handbook to the University of Oxford, Clarendon, 1956, pp. 291-9.
291-2
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Keene, Anne. “Mothers of the House”. Oxford Today, Vol.
15
, No. 2, 2003, pp. 29-31. 29, 30
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
268
October 1879: Somerville College, one of the two first...
Building item
October 1879
Somerville College
, one of the two first residential women's colleges at Oxford University, opened its doors to students.
Green, Vivian Hubert Howard. A History of Oxford University. Batsford, 1974.
185
Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
345-6, 374-5
Keene, Anne. “Mothers of the House”. Oxford Today, Vol.
15
, No. 2, 2003, pp. 29-31. 29, 30
1889: Cornelia Sorabji, the first woman law student...
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1889
Cornelia Sorabji
, the first woman law student at a British university, enrolled at Somerville College
, Oxford
.
Midgley, Clare. “Ethnicity, ‘Race’ and Empire”. Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945, edited by June Purvis, St Martin’s Press, 1995, pp. 247-76.
260
About September 1936: British haemotologist Janet Vaughan realised...
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About September 1936
British haemotologist Janet Vaughan
realised from work during the Spanish Civil War with the Committee for Spanish Medical Aid
that blood transfusions could be successfully made with stored blood.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
21 April 1958: Margery Fry died as almost a national celebrity:...
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21 April 1958
Margery Fry
died as almost a national celebrity: criminal justice reformer, prison reformer, campaigner for victims' compensation, educationalist (briefly Principal of Somerville College
), writer on children's care and development, and latterly broadcaster (a regular...
31 October 1984: Indira Gandhi, who had been Prime Minister...
National or international item
31 October 1984
Indira Gandhi
, who had been Prime Minister of India with only one short break since 1967, was assassinated, shot down in her garden by two of her body-guards who were Sikhs, in retaliation for...
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