Somerville College, Oxford University

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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.
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Brabazon, James. Dorothy L. Sayers. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1981.
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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.
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Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell, 1996.
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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.
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, Marion E. Wade Center of Wheaton College, 2000, pp. 47-59.
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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.
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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.
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Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins, 1972.
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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.
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Education Margaret Forster
MF loved Carlisle Girls' High School in a way that made my love of all school from the beginning seem a feeble thing—although she quickly realised her deficiencies, like not having heard of Dickens
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.
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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.
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Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press, 1991.
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Education Iris Murdoch
IM went up to Somerville College , Oxford, on an Open Exhibition.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002.
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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.
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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.
Another, Julia , who was eleven years younger than Mary Augusta, was an early graduate of Somerville College, Oxford ...

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