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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Education | Maggie Gee | MG
, an open scholarship student at Somerville College
, received her Oxford Honours BA in English. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 207 |
Education | Maggie Gee | 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 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | CPG
's correspondence with Vernon Lee
(on whom she was an important influence) survives among Lee's papers at Somerville College
, Oxford. Zorn, Christa. Vernon Lee: Aesthetics, History, and the Victorian Female Intellectual. Ohio University Press. 182n9 |
Education | Winifred Holtby | WH
went up to Somerville College
, Oxford, as an undergraduate. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 140 |
Education | Winifred Holtby | WH
returned to Somerville College
, Oxford, after a year out for war service, to finish her degree course in History. Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago. 98, 100 |
Other Life Event | Winifred Holtby | In December of the same year the Winifred Holtby Memorial Library
was founded in the Western Native Township of Johannesburg, South Africa. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 339 |
Publishing | Winifred Holtby | At Somerville, Oxford
, WH
wrote for the college paper, The Fritillary. Leonardi, Susan J. Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville College Novelists. Rutgers University Press. 50 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Aldous Huxley | 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
... |
Education | Muriel Jaeger | After graduating from Sheffield High School
, MJ
went up to Somerville College, Oxford
, as a Clothworkers' Scholar (that is, on a scholarship funded by one of the traditional London guilds). Reynolds, Barbara. “"‘Dear Jim
’ The Reconstruction of A Friendship”. Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review, Vol. 17 , Marion E. Wade Center of Wheaton College, pp. 47-59. 48 |
Education | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
travelled back to Oxford to take part in the ceremony of the first official award of Oxford University degrees to women, together with several of her Somerville College
contemporaries. Reynolds, Barbara. “"‘Dear Jim
’ The Reconstruction of A Friendship”. Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review, Vol. 17 , Marion E. Wade Center of Wheaton College, pp. 47-59. 53 |
Author summary | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
began her book-publishing career with four novels during the 1920s and 30s; she is one of the least known amongst the Somerville
novelists who attended Oxford together at the time of the First World... |
Friends, Associates | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
was a contemporary and close friend of Dorothy L. Sayers
, who dedicated several works to her. They include a poem about the way their shared Oxford experience was vanishing into the past (Jaeger... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Muriel Jaeger | 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... |
Education | Judith Kazantzis | Judith Pakenham
attended a Catholic convent school which in the same poem about her childhood she remembers as a prison where she used to cry all night. She took her BA in modern history at... |
Textual Production | Margaret Kennedy | As an undergraduate at Somerville College
, MK
wrote two of the end-of-year Going-Down plays. She contributed to the college magazine, The Fritillary, a parody of a tutorial. Leonardi, Susan J. Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville College Novelists. Rutgers University Press. 55 |
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