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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Winifred Holtby | WH
went up to Somerville College
, Oxford, as an undergraduate. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995. 140 |
| Education | Doreen Wallace | Her time at Malvern was probably financed by her paternal aunts. She changed her name to Doreen because her schoolmates included too many Eileens, and learned tennis, debating, and (her favourite subjects) literature, painting, music... |
| Education | E. J. Scovell | EJS
, at Somerville College
, received an Oxford BA in English, having begun her degree course in classics. Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge, 1996. 122 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| 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, 1978. 39 |
| Education | Winifred Holtby | WH
returned to Somerville College
, Oxford, after a year out for war service, to finish her degree course in History. Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago, 1999. 98, 100 |
| Education | Marghanita Laski | 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
| Education | Doreen Wallace | DW
went up to Somerville College
on a bursary and an exhibition (each a form of scholarship). The university was much changed by the absence of men at the war, and Somerville's buildings had been... |
| Education | E. J. Scovell | She next attended, as a boarder, Casterton School in Westmorland (descendant of the Clergy Daughters' School which is infamous in connection with the Brontë sisters). Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge, 1996. 122 |
| 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, 1995. 64-5 |
| Education | Penelope Fitzgerald | Penelope Knox (later PF
) received a first-class Honours BA in English from Somerville
, Oxford, her mother's old college. Her degree was what is called a congratulatory first. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Education | Helen Waddell | HW
enrolled as a postgraduate student at Somerville College, Oxford
, in November 1920, but never finished either the thesis or the residence requirements for her D.Phil. She developed at this stage an over-riding interest... |
| Education | Dorothy L. Sayers | DLS
attended Somerville College, Oxford, where she studied medieval French. Reynolds, Barbara. Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul. Hodder and Stoughton, 1993. 45, 62 Brabazon, James. Dorothy L. Sayers. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1981. 47, 48 |
| 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 |
| 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, 1996. 152-3 Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995. 143 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Roger Fry | His elder sister Joan Mary Fry
became a social reformer. His younger sister Margery Fry
became a distinguished feminist, social reformer, and Principal of Somerville College, Oxford
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Joan Mary Fry, Margery Fry |
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