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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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 |
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... |
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 | Kathleen Nott | KN
attended the highly respected Mary Datchelor School
before moving on to King's College
, London, for a year. After securing an open exhibition in English (the only subject I could get up... |
Education | Ethel M. Arnold | The school, which was populated by the daughters of Oxford dons who had recently been allowed to marry and have families, had a feminist atmosphere. The students debated topics like rational dress and women’s education... |
Education | A. S. Byatt | Antonia Drabble (later ASB
) began research on Renaissance allegory at Somerville College
, Oxford. Kelly, Kathleen Coyne. A.S. Byatt. Twayne, 1996. 3 |
Education | Judith Kazantzis | Judith Pakenham
attended a Catholic convent school which in the same poem about her childhood she remembers as a prison where she used to cry all night. She took her BA in modern history at... |
Education | Ann Oakley | Ann Titmuss (later AO
) studied at Somerville College, Oxford
; she took an Honours BA, Second Class, in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. Oakley, Ann. Taking It like a Woman. Flamingo, 1992. 36, 48 |
Education | Christopher St John | Christabel Marshall may probably have attended (with more than one of her sisters) Clifton High School for Girls
. She was admitted in 1894 to Somerville College, Oxford
, to read history, but did not... |
Education | Nina Bawden | Nina Bawden went up to a wartime Oxford, in which No bells rang . . . there was almost no traffic, and there were far fewer undergraduates than in normal times. She was a member... |
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, and Jane Haslett. Emails about Catherine Byron to Jane Haslett. Nov.–Jan. 1997. |
Education | Margaret Kennedy | MK
began studying at Somerville College, Oxford
. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann, 1983. 37 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 36 |
Education | Maggie Gee | MG
, an open scholarship student at Somerville College
, received her Oxford Honours BA in English. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 207 |
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, and Jane Haslett. Emails about Catherine Byron to Jane Haslett. Nov.–Jan. 1997. |
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