Somerville College, Oxford University

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...

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...

One of MAW 's younger sisters became the writer, lecturer, and photographer Ethel Arnold . Another, Julia , who was eleven years younger than Mary Augusta, was an early graduate of Somerville College, Oxford ...

His elder sister Joan Mary Fry became a social reformer. His younger sister Margery Fry became a distinguished feminist, social reformer, and Principal of Somerville College, Oxford .

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

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...

Working in the left-wing bookshop early in her time at Oxford, HSW became acquainted with Iris Murdoch , who was then an undergraduate at Somerville College and who frequented the shop. Weaver was finishing...

Friends from HW 's time at Somerville included Maude Clarke , whom she had known as a child and whose Oxford position had been one of the incentives to go there, and archaelogist Helen Lorimer

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

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 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...

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...