Somerville College, Oxford University

As a member of Somerville 's Mutual Admiration Society MJ must already have been writing, since the group existed for the purpose of mutual literary encouragement. She collaborated with Dorothy Sayers in writing, and performing...

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...

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

MK began studying at Somerville College, Oxford .

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

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

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 at Somerville College , MK wrote two of the end-of-year Going-Down plays. She contributed to the college magazine, The Fritillary, a parody of a tutorial.

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.

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.

After graduating from Somerville , ML began working as a journalist. During the war she held a succession of jobs, in publishing, dairy farming, nursing, and intelligence work. After the war ended, she became a...

Important collections of her papers are held at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, at Somerville College , Oxford, and at the British Institute in Florence.

RM 's godfather, Reginald Heber Macaulay (Uncle Regi), paid for her to enter Somerville College, Oxford , to read Modern History.

Helen Taylor arranged for the gift in 1905 of his books (those that were in England, not in Avignon, when he died) to Somerville College, Oxford , where they make a valued and now much-studied...

WM had a Shetlander's particular interest in the Auvergnat language: a local dialect of Occitan (which itself proved to be the historically non-dominant form of French). The owners and operators of the Samson Press were...