Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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, 1995. 138 Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell, 1996. 138 |
Education | Muriel Jaeger | After graduating from Sheffield High School
, MJ
went up to Somerville College, Oxford
, as a Clothworkers' Scholar (that is, on a scholarship funded by one of the traditional London guilds). Reynolds, Barbara. “"‘Dear Jim
’ The Reconstruction of A Friendship”. Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review, Vol. 17 , Marion E. Wade Center of Wheaton College, 2000, pp. 47-59. 48 |
Education | Margaret Forster | Having sat the Oxford and Cambridge entrance exams at her school in Carlisle (taking the gamble of an extra term at school after her A-levels to do so, though if she failed to make Oxbridge... |
Education | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
travelled back to Oxford to take part in the ceremony of the first official award of Oxford University degrees to women, together with several of her Somerville College
contemporaries. Reynolds, Barbara. “"‘Dear Jim
’ The Reconstruction of A Friendship”. Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review, Vol. 17 , Marion E. Wade Center of Wheaton College, 2000, pp. 47-59. 53 |
Education | Margaret Forster | MF
gained her Honours BA in modern history from Somerville College, Oxford
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 271 |
Education | Rose Macaulay | RM
's godfather, Reginald Heber Macaulay
(Uncle Regi), paid for her to enter Somerville College, Oxford
, to read Modern History. Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray, 1991. 61-2, 79 Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins, 1972. 42-3 |
Education | Michèle Roberts | 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. Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago, 2007. 3,11-12 Michèle Roberts. http://www.micheleroberts.co.uk/index.htm. |
Education | Margaret Forster | |
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. 93 Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press, 1991. 16-18 |
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. 228 |
Education | Iris Murdoch | IM
went up to Somerville College
, Oxford, on an Open Exhibition. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002. 78 |
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 | 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 | 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... |
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