Somerville College, Oxford University

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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
but the pupils were expected to...
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
She then went on to Somerville College, Oxford University .
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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