Somerville College, Oxford University

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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.
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Oxford
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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but the pupils were expected to...
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
She then went on to Somerville College, Oxford University .
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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4 June 1878: Lady Margaret Hall, a women's college at...

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4 June 1878

Lady Margaret Hall , a women's college at Oxford University named after Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby , was founded.
Grier, Miss L. “Women’s Education at Oxford”. Handbook to the University of Oxford, Clarendon, 1956, pp. 291-9.
291-2
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.
Keene, Anne. “Mothers of the House”. Oxford Today, Vol.
15
, No. 2, 2003, pp. 29-31.
29, 30
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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October 1879: Somerville College, one of the two first...

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October 1879

Somerville College , one of the two first residential women's colleges at Oxford University, opened its doors to students.
Green, Vivian Hubert Howard. A History of Oxford University. Batsford, 1974.
185
Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
345-6, 374-5
Keene, Anne. “Mothers of the House”. Oxford Today, Vol.
15
, No. 2, 2003, pp. 29-31.
29, 30

1889: Cornelia Sorabji, the first woman law student...

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1889

Cornelia Sorabji , the first woman law student at a British university, enrolled at Somerville College , Oxford .
Midgley, Clare. “Ethnicity, ‘Race’ and Empire”. Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945, edited by June Purvis, St Martin’s Press, 1995, pp. 247-76.
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About September 1936: British haemotologist Janet Vaughan realised...

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About September 1936

British haemotologist Janet Vaughan realised from work during the Spanish Civil War with the Committee for Spanish Medical Aid that blood transfusions could be successfully made with stored blood.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

21 April 1958: Margery Fry died as almost a national celebrity:...

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21 April 1958

Margery Fry died as almost a national celebrity: criminal justice reformer, prison reformer, campaigner for victims' compensation, educationalist (briefly Principal of Somerville College ), writer on children's care and development, and latterly broadcaster (a regular...

31 October 1984: Indira Gandhi, who had been Prime Minister...

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31 October 1984

Indira Gandhi , who had been Prime Minister of India with only one short break since 1967, was assassinated, shot down in her garden by two of her body-guards who were Sikhs, in retaliation for...

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