Somerville College, Oxford University

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Education Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda
Margaret Haig Thomas (later MHVR ) attended Somerville College at Oxford for a single year.
Rhondda, Margaret Haig, Viscountess. This Was My World. Macmillan, 1933.
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Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press, 1991.
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Education Iris Murdoch
IM went up to Somerville College , Oxford, on an Open Exhibition.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002.
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Education Eleanor Rathbone
ER went up to Somerville College, Oxford , as an undergraduate. She graduated in 1896, having earned a second-class BA degree in Philosophy (though women did not receive Oxford degrees until 1920).
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2025, 2 vols.
Education Christine Brooke-Rose
CBR studied for a BA in English literature and philology at Somerville College, Oxford .
Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press, 1994.
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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 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.
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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 A. S. Byatt
Antonia Drabble (later ASB ) began research on Renaissance allegory at Somerville College , Oxford.
Kelly, Kathleen Coyne. A.S. Byatt. Twayne, 1996.
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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 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.
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“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Family and Intimate relationships Mary Augusta Ward
One of MAW 's younger sisters became the writer, lecturer, and photographer Ethel Arnold .
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.
Another, Julia , who was eleven years younger than Mary Augusta, was an early graduate of Somerville College, Oxford ...
Family and Intimate relationships Ethel Sidgwick
ES 's father, Arthur Sidgwick , was a classical scholar who had been regarded since school and university days as brilliant. He spent many years as a master at Rugby School before becoming a Fellow...

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