Somerville College, Oxford University

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...

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...

Antonia Drabble (later ASB ) began research on Renaissance allegory at Somerville College , Oxford.

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...

Ann Titmuss (later AO ) studied at Somerville College, Oxford ; she took an Honours BA, Second Class, in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics.

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...

Having attended Somerville College, Oxford University , Catherine Greenfield (later CB ) received her BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature.

MK began studying at Somerville College, Oxford .

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...

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

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

MG , an open scholarship student at Somerville College , received her Oxford Honours BA in English.

MG gives a very funny account of being interviewed for a place at Cambridge by Queenie Leavis , whose name she did not recognise, and talking confidently about Keats in ignorance of the way F. R. Leavis

DW took the equivalent of a BA Honours degree in English at Somerville College , Oxford, just the year before women were actually first admitted to Oxford degrees.

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...