Somerville College, Oxford University

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...

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

With Mrs Augustus Vernon Harcourt , MAW became inaugural secretary of the Somerville Committee which was dedicated to the formation of a women's college at Oxford .

MAW sat on the Council of the recently-founded Somerville College for women.

MAW broke with Somerville College after forming the Anti-Suffrage League .

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 .

As an undergraduate in Belfast, HW wrote poetry and delivered rousing addresses as President of the Christian Union . During the painful years before she became a graduate student at Somerville College ...

DW and Leon Geach (both students at Somerville College ) together published a poetry volume called Esques.

DLS 's interest in translating began during her years at Oxford . Her financial success as detective novelist allowed her to return to it later in her career, as with her version of The Song...

Eileen Wallace (later Doreen) began writing poetry as a child, generally to console herself for unhappiness. At Oxford she formed, with Leon Geach and Dorothy Sayers , the Rhyme Club , whose pastime was...

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...

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...

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...

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