Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Somerville College, Oxford University
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Wealth and Poverty | Helen Taylor | Following Mill
's death, HT
inherited the house in Avignon which he had bought in order to be close to her mother
's grave. |
politics | Anna Swanwick | AS
helped found Somerville College, Oxford
, and Girton College, Cambridge
. 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. |
politics | Anna Swanwick | The husband drew up his will in 1884, leaving the bulk of his fortune for women's education and clearly explaining why. It is women who have hitherto had the worst of life, and I therefore... |
Education | Christopher St John | Christabel Marshall may probably have attended (with more than one of her sisters) Clifton High School for Girls
. She was admitted in 1894 to Somerville College, Oxford
, to read history, but did not... |
Occupation | Mary Somerville | MS
had serious artistic as well as scientific interests, and considerable skill as a painter. Landscapes and a self-portrait by her now hang at Somerville College, Oxford
. “Mary Somerville (1780 - 1872)”. askArt. |
death | Mary Somerville | After her death, much of MS
's library was presented to the Ladies' College at Hitchin (now Girton College
, Cambridge), and in 1879 Somerville College
at Oxford University was named after her. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, pp. 208-16. 212 |
Reception | Mary Somerville | MS
outstanding intellectual achievements were memorialised in the foundation after her death of Somerville College
as an Oxford University
women's college. In 2017 she was honoured with an image (in a fetching bonnet) on the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel Sidgwick | ES
's father, Arthur Sidgwick
, was a classical scholar who had been regarded since school and university days as brilliant. He spent many years as a master at Rugby School
before becoming a Fellow... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel Sidgwick | The younger of ES
's sisters, Margaret, did unpaid voluntary work. Rose
, her elder sister, took a first-class honours degree in history and became a distinguished academic, first at Somerville College, Oxford
, and... |
Education | E. J. Scovell | EJS
, at Somerville College
, received an Oxford BA in English, having begun her degree course in classics. Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge. 122 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | E. J. Scovell | She next attended, as a boarder, Casterton School in Westmorland (descendant of the Clergy Daughters' School which is infamous in connection with the Brontë sisters). Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge. 122 |
Textual Production | E. J. Scovell | |
Education | Dorothy L. Sayers | DLS
attended Somerville College, Oxford, where she studied medieval French. Reynolds, Barbara. Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul. Hodder and Stoughton. 45, 62 Brabazon, James. Dorothy L. Sayers. Charles Scribner’s Sons. 47, 48 |
Textual Production | Dorothy L. Sayers | Meanwhile, as a Somerville
undergraduate she wrote for the college paper, The Fritillary, and for a group which she formed and which called itself the Mutual Admiration Society. She wrote most of the... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Dorothy L. Sayers |
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