Reynolds, Barbara. Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul. Hodder and Stoughton, 1993.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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 |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | |
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 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 | Iris Murdoch | IM
went up to Somerville College
, Oxford, on an Open Exhibition. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002. 78 |
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, 1985–2024, 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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Walter Pater | WP
was particularly close to his unmarried sisters. Both women were accomplished in their own right. The elder sister, Hester
, became known as a talented embroiderer and friend to Mary Augusta Ward
and Virginia Woolf |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Augusta Ward | One of MAW
's younger sisters became the writer, lecturer, and photographer Ethel Arnold
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
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