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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Education | Margaret Kennedy | MK
received the equivalent of a Second Class honours degree in History from Somerville College
. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann. 41 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 36 |
Health | Margaret Kennedy | The death in action of MK
's cousin Horas Kennedy
precipitated a one-year leave for Margaret from Somerville College
on grounds of illness. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann. 39 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Margaret Kennedy | 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... |
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 |
Dedications | Margaret Kennedy | MK
dedicated her final novel, Not in the Calendar, 1964, to a Somerville
friend, and gave it the subtitle The Story of a Friendship. |
Education | Marghanita Laski | ML
was awarded BA honours, third class, at the end of her course at Somerville College, Oxford
, where she studied English Language and Literature with particular focus on Old and Middle English. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Dedications | Marghanita Laski | ML
dedicated to Mary Lascelles
(who had taught her at Somerville College
) her bio- critical work on three Victorian writers for children: Mrs. Ewing
, Mrs. Molesworth
, and Mrs. Hodgson Burnett. Laski, Marghanita. Mrs. Ewing, Mrs. Molesworth, and Mrs. Hodgson Burnett. A. Barker. prelims Maxwell, Mrs. “Ladies of Quality”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 2528, p. 438. 438 |
Occupation | Marghanita Laski | 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... |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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... |
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... |
Education | Iris Murdoch | IM
went up to Somerville College
, Oxford, on an Open Exhibition. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins. 78 |
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... |
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