Somerville College, Oxford University

MK began studying at Somerville College, Oxford .

MG , an open scholarship student at Somerville College , received her Oxford Honours BA in English.

Catherine Greenfield (later CB ) received her MPhil in Medieval Literature from Oxford University, where she had pursued her graduate studies at Somerville College .

MK received the equivalent of a Second Class honours degree in History from Somerville College .

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

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.

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...

WH went up to Somerville College , Oxford, as an undergraduate.

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, but the pupils were expected to...

WH returned to Somerville College , Oxford, after a year out for war service, to finish her degree course in History.

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...

EJS , at Somerville College , received an Oxford BA in English, having begun her degree course in classics.

VB began her first year at Somerville College , Oxford, two months after the outbreak of the first world war.

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.

DW went up to Somerville College on a bursary and an exhibition (each a form of scholarship). The university was much changed by the absence of men at the war, and Somerville's buildings had been...