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, 1987, pp. 208-16.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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death | Amelia B. Edwards | She was buried in Ellen Braysher
's family plot at Henbury, just north of Westbury-on-Trym, her grave appropriately marked with an Egyptian obelisk. She bequeathed her egyptological library and collection of artefacts to... |
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, 1987, pp. 208-16. 212 |
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. |
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, 1950. prelims Maxwell, Mrs. “Ladies of Quality”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 2528, 14 July 1950, p. 438. 438 |
Education | Maggie Gee | MG
gives a very funny account of being interviewed for a place at Cambridge
by Queenie Leavis
, whose name she did not recognise, and talking confidently about Keats
in ignorance of the way F. R. Leavis |
Education | Doreen Wallace | DW
took the equivalent of a BA Honours degree in English at Somerville College
, Oxford, just the year before women were actually first admitted to Oxford degrees. Shepherd, June. Doreen Wallace, 1897-1989: Writer and Social Campaigner. Edwin Mellen Press, 2000. 25 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Education | Lucy Boston | LB
was educated first at local schools at Southport and Arnside, then at Downs School, Seaford,Sussex, and then at a Quaker school in Surrey. She went to a finishing school in Paris before... |
Education | Winifred Holtby | WH
went up to Somerville College
, Oxford, as an undergraduate. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995. 140 |
Education | E. J. Scovell | EJS
, at Somerville College
, received an Oxford BA in English, having begun her degree course in classics. Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge, 1996. 122 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | Elizabeth Bowen | The school was run by Olive Willis
, a graduate of Somerville College
, Oxford, a very strong-willed and influential woman. The school was slightly irregular and amateurish, Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. 39 |
Education | Winifred Holtby | WH
returned to Somerville College
, Oxford, after a year out for war service, to finish her degree course in History. Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago, 1999. 98, 100 |
Education | Doreen Wallace | Her time at Malvern was probably financed by her paternal aunts. She changed her name to Doreen because her schoolmates included too many Eileens, and learned tennis, debating, and (her favourite subjects) literature, painting, music... |
Education | E. J. Scovell | She next attended, as a boarder, Casterton School in Westmorland (descendant of the Clergy Daughters' School which is infamous in connection with the Brontë sisters). Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge, 1996. 122 |
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, 1995. 64-5 |
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. |
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