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Textual Production | Lady Cynthia Asquith | She wrote in bed in the mornings, completing 50,000 words in three months and finding that she had never been so happy. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton. 283 |
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... |
Reception | Nina Bawden | NB
was an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford
(where she was an undergraduate). She was President of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists
. She was made CBE in 1995, and was a... |
politics | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Though MBE
attended, together with a male friend, a meeting of the International Working Men's Association
presided over by Karl Marx
, she did so more as an observer than as a sympathiser. She felt... |
Occupation | Lucy Boston | Lucy Wood (later LB
) left Oxford University
to serve as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, first at St Thomas's Hospital
, London, then at Addenbrookes Hospital
, Cambridge, and then a military... |
Education | Lucy Boston | 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... |
Education | Elizabeth Bowen | 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, Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf. 39 |
Education | Vera Brittain | VB
began her first year at Somerville College
, Oxford, two months after the outbreak of the first world war. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 64-5 |
Occupation | Vera Brittain | VB
left Somerville College
at the end of her first academic year to work as a VAD
. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 81 |
Education | Vera Brittain | Her VAD service completed, VB
returned to Somerville College
, Oxford, to finish her degree course. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 138 Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell. 138 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vera Brittain | VB
met Winifred Holtby
at Somerville College
, Oxford, where each was studying after war service. Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell. 152-3 Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 143 |
Literary Setting | Vera Brittain | 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... |
Literary responses | Vera Brittain | The Dark Tide had a hostile reception. The Daily Express called it an insult to women's colleges, Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 182 |
Textual Features | Vera Brittain | Janet turns to suffrage politics in frustration with her life of service to her husband, a very traditional clergyman. Their son Denis meets and falls in love with Ruth when both are Oxford undergraduates (Ruth... |
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. 228 |
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