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death | Mary Somerville | After her death, much of MS
's library was presented to the Ladies' College at Hitchin (now Girton College
, Cambridge), and in 1879 Somerville College
at Oxford University was named after her. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, pp. 208-16. 212 |
Reception | Mary Somerville | MS
outstanding intellectual achievements were memorialised in the foundation after her death of Somerville College
as an Oxford University
women's college. In 2017 she was honoured with an image (in a fetching bonnet) on the... |
Reception | Ethel Smyth | ES
's musical career earned her two honorary Doctorates of Music: from the University of Durham
in 1911, and from Oxford
in 1926 (the first woman so honoured who was not part of the Oxford... |
Reception | Edith Sitwell | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel Sidgwick | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Louisa Catherine Shore | Her father, Thomas Shore
, received his education at Oxford
and was a Church of England
clergyman until his reservations about the Thirty-Nine Articles led him to redirect his energies to private tutoring. He educated... |
Textual Production | Percy Bysshe Shelley | |
Characters | Evelyn Sharp | The protagonist of the opening story has covered herself with glory as a student of Greek at Oxfprd
, but she still has no means of earning a living except work as a governess. In... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Sewell | James Edwards Sewell
(1810-1903) became an academic. He served as Warden of New College, Oxford
, and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University
. Sewell, Elizabeth. The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell. Editor Sewell, Eleanor L., Longmans, Green. xi The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press. |
Family and Intimate relationships | E. J. Scovell | He was a son of the man of letters Oliver Elton
. At the time of his wedding to EJS
he was Oxford University
's Reader in Animal Ecology and a Senior Research Fellow of... |
Material Conditions of Writing | E. J. Scovell | |
Literary Setting | Dorothy L. Sayers | In Gaudy Night, Harriet Vane returns to Oxford, the scene of her student days at Shrewsbury College, a fictional women's college
. Her first visit is for a gaudy, but she soon returns... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dorothy L. Sayers | The academic background gives DLS
an excuse for lavish literary quotation: from Greek, from Shakespeare
and other canonical writers, many of them Elizabethan, and from moderns like Humbert Wolfe
. Her Oxford
is the preserve... |
Textual Production | Dorothy L. Sayers | |
Education | Dorothy L. Sayers |
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