Oxford University

ES was privately educated, never, as she put it, on orthodox lines. At one point she was sent for eighteen months to boarding school in Calcutta—at which, however, she learned nothing. She...

At the same time as applying for her place at Newnham, she kept her options open by applying for a lectureship at Sheffield University and a place at Vassar in New York State, as...

DLS 's parents sent her to Godolphin school (in Salisbury, Wiltshire) in preparation for Oxford .

She earned first-class Honours, though as a woman she was not yet allowed to take a degree. While at Oxford she met Vera Brittain , who liked her on sight. She dressed flamboyantly and eccentrically...

Ray Costelloe (later RS ) became the first woman to attend lectures on electrical engineering at Oxford .

Joseph attended various schools, including Charterhouse , before going on to Oxford , where he was a member of two successive colleges. He later travelled to France and Italy on a grant from his college...

AR won a Guggenheim fellowship, which enabled her to study at Oxford and travel through Italy.

The same could not be said of Oxford University , where she achieved a place to study PPE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics). She had little social life at her college, since it would not provide...

JD received her BA in history from Oxford , after final exams postponed for a year because of a health breakdown.

Naomi Haldane, aged sixteen (later NM ), enrolled as an Oxfordhome student in what later became St Anne's College.

CC attended the Glasgow School of Art. On her return from Frankfurt she studied English Literature at Queen Margaret's College , the women's college which for nearly a decade had been part of Glasgow University

SP received her Oxford BA Honours in Medieval and Modern French after her three years at Lady Margaret Hall .

CFA was well educated at home with her sisters, while her brothers attended Oxford . She studied French and English language and literature, eventually becoming fluent in French.

AB 's three eldest sisters had attended Oxford and one had become a don, though her two other elder sisters had been kept from university life by poor health. Her family assumed that she would...

KN 's class of degree in her BA in PPE from Oxford University was announced: she was awarded a fourth-class BA (a class which was popularly believed to reflect not lack of ability but rather...