Somerville College, Oxford University

Margaret Haig Thomas (later MHVR ) attended Somerville College at Oxford for a single year.

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

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

Eighteen-year-old MR left home for Somerville , one of the Oxford women's colleges, where three years later she took her BA, Second Class, in English Language and Literature.

MK dedicated her final novel, Not in the Calendar, 1964, to a Somerville friend, and gave it the subtitle The Story of a Friendship.

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.

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...

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.Oxford