Somerville College, Oxford University

His mother, born Julia Arnold , was a younger sister of Mary Augusta Ward and a niece of Matthew Arnold . She took a first-class English honours degree at the new Somerville College, Oxford ...

PF 's mother, Christine (Hicks) Knox , a bishop's daughter, was one of the early graduates of Somerville College, Oxford , a moderate suffragist, and a writer (specialising in school abridgements of classic books). She...

VB met Winifred Holtby at Somerville College , Oxford, where each was studying after war service.

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...

The younger of ES 's sisters, Margaret, did unpaid voluntary work. Rose , her elder sister, took a first-class honours degree in history and became a distinguished academic, first at Somerville College, Oxford , and...

Working in the left-wing bookshop early in her time at Oxford, HSW became acquainted with Iris Murdoch , who was then an undergraduate at Somerville College and who frequented the shop. Weaver was finishing...

Friends from HW 's time at Somerville included Maude Clarke , whom she had known as a child and whose Oxford position had been one of the incentives to go there, and archaelogist Helen Lorimer

MJ was a contemporary and close friend of Dorothy L. Sayers , who dedicated several works to her. They include a poem about the way their shared Oxford experience was vanishing into the past (Jaeger...

The death in action of MK 's cousin Horas Kennedy precipitated a one-year leave for Margaret from Somerville College on grounds of illness.

The Dark Tide had a hostile reception. The Daily Express called it an insult to women's colleges, and both dons and students of Somerville College were uncomfortable with VB 's fictionalized but still recognizable...

The Dark Tide is set partly at Drayton College, VB 's fictionalised version of Somerville College , before it follows Drayton's graduates out into the world. The two main characters are Daphne Lethbridge, based...

Three years after MK had earned her second-class history degree from Somerville College , she published a volume of French history commissioned from her by A. L. Smith , the Master of Balliol: A Century...

As an undergraduate in Belfast, HW wrote poetry and delivered rousing addresses as President of the Christian Union . During the painful years before she became a graduate student at Somerville College ...

DW and Leon Geach (both students at Somerville College ) together published a poetry volume called Esques.

DLS 's interest in translating began during her years at Oxford . Her financial success as detective novelist allowed her to return to it later in her career, as with her version of The Song...