Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago.
3,11-12
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Education | Michèle Roberts | Eighteen-year-old MR
left home for Somerville
, one of the Oxford women's colleges, where three years later she took her BA, Second Class, in English Language and Literature. Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago. 3,11-12 Michèle Roberts. http://www.micheleroberts.co.uk/index.htm. |
Education | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
went up to Somerville College, Oxford
, as an undergraduate. She graduated in 1896, having earned a second-class BA degree in Philosophy (though women did not receive Oxford degrees until 1920). Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. |
Reception | Eleanor Rathbone | During ER
's lifetime the leaders of both major political parties, Winston Churchill
and Clement Attlee
(whose regard for her was equally high), repeatedly urged her to accept honours of various kinds, but she refused... |
Wealth and Poverty | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | Money from the Pfeiffer trust was also given to Newnham
, Girton
, and Somerville College
s, and many other institutions and agencies promoting women's education, including the Maria Grey Training College
and the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women |
Family and Intimate relationships | Walter Pater | WP
was particularly close to his unmarried sisters. Both women were accomplished in their own right. The elder sister, Hester
, became known as a talented embroiderer and friend to Mary Augusta Ward
and Virginia Woolf |
Education | Ann Oakley | Ann Titmuss (later AO
) studied at Somerville College, Oxford
; she took an Honours BA, Second Class, in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. Oakley, Ann. Taking It like a Woman. Flamingo. 36, 48 |
Textual Production | Ann Oakley | While she was a student at Chiswick Polytechnic
, Ann Titmuss
(later AO
) had an article entitled Socialism and Me printed in the college bulletin. 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. |
Publishing | Ann Oakley | |
Education | Kathleen Nott | KN
attended the highly respected Mary Datchelor School
before moving on to King's College
, London, for a year. After securing an open exhibition in English (the only subject I could get up... |
Education | Iris Murdoch | IM
went up to Somerville College
, Oxford, on an Open Exhibition. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins. 78 |
Textual Production | Willa Muir | WM
had a Shetlander's particular interest in the Auvergnat language: a local dialect of Occitan (which itself proved to be the historically non-dominant form of French). The owners and operators of the Samson Press were... |
Wealth and Poverty | John Stuart Mill | Helen Taylor
arranged for the gift in 1905 of his books (those that were in England, not in Avignon, when he died) to Somerville College, Oxford
, where they make a valued and now much-studied... |
Education | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Margaret Haig Thomas (later MHVR
) attended Somerville College
at Oxford for a single year. Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. This Was My World. Macmillan. 93 Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 16-18 |
Education | Rose Macaulay | RM
's godfather, Reginald Heber Macaulay
(Uncle Regi), paid for her to enter Somerville College, Oxford
, to read Modern History. Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray. 61-2, 79 Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins. 42-3 |
Textual Production | Vernon Lee | Important collections of her papers are held at Colby College
in Waterville, Maine, at Somerville College
, Oxford, and at the British Institute
in Florence. Zorn, Christa. Vernon Lee: Aesthetics, History, and the Victorian Female Intellectual. Ohio University Press. 195 |
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