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Somerville College, Oxford University
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Performance of text | Elizabeth Daryush | A masque entitled Demeter by Robert Bridges
was performed in the college gardens by students of Somerville, Oxford
, to celebrate the opening of their new library; it included verses by his daughter Elizabeth
. |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Daryush | The masque was revived at Somerville
fifty years later, on 26 June 1954, and the University of South Carolina
holds a single-sheet publication from it. |
politics | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
continued to involve herself in the anti-vivisection and suffrage movements after her move to Wales. When the Conservative
government came into power in 1886 she pressed for female enfranchisement through party connections. In 1888... |
politics | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
protested against the attendance of Somerville College
undergraduates at lectures by J. S. Burdon Sanderson
and E. Ray Lankester
, both supporters of vivisection. French, Richard D. Antivivisection and Medical Science in Victorian Society. Princeton University Press. 276 |
Education | Catherine Byron | Having attended Somerville College, Oxford University
, Catherine Greenfield (later CB
) received her BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature. “English Research Team: Catherine Byron”. Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham Institute for English Research. Byron, Catherine. Emails about Catherine Byron to Jane Haslett. |
Education | Catherine Byron | Catherine Greenfield (later CB
) received her MPhil in Medieval Literature from Oxford University, where she had pursued her graduate studies at Somerville College
. “English Research Team: Catherine Byron”. Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham Institute for English Research. Byron, Catherine. Emails about Catherine Byron to Jane Haslett. |
Education | A. S. Byatt | Antonia Drabble (later ASB
) began research on Renaissance allegory at Somerville College
, Oxford. Kelly, Kathleen Coyne. A.S. Byatt. Twayne. 3 |
Education | Christine Brooke-Rose | CBR
studied for a BA in English literature and philology at Somerville College, Oxford
. Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press. 228 |
Textual Production | Christine Brooke-Rose | CBR
gave at Somerville College, Oxford
, the James Bryce Memorial Lecture later printed in Invisible Author: Last Essays as A Writer's Constraints. Brooke-Rose, Christine. Invisible Author: Last Essays. Ohio State University Press. 36n |
Education | Vera Brittain | VB
began her first year at Somerville College
, Oxford, two months after the outbreak of the first world war. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 64-5 |
Occupation | Vera Brittain | VB
left Somerville College
at the end of her first academic year to work as a VAD
. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 81 |
Education | Vera Brittain | Her VAD service completed, VB
returned to Somerville College
, Oxford, to finish her degree course. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 138 Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell. 138 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vera Brittain | VB
met Winifred Holtby
at Somerville College
, Oxford, where each was studying after war service. Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell. 152-3 Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 143 |
Literary Setting | Vera Brittain | 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... |
Literary responses | Vera Brittain | The Dark Tide had a hostile reception. The Daily Express called it an insult to women's colleges, Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 182 |
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