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Material Conditions of Writing | Margaret Kennedy | Three years after MK
had earned her second-class history degree from Somerville College
, she published a volume of French history commissioned from her by A. L. Smith
, the Master of Balliol: A Century... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Helen Waddell | As an undergraduate in Belfast, HW
wrote poetry and delivered rousing addresses as President of the Christian Union
. Waddell, Helen. “Acknowledgements; Note; Introduction”. Between Two Eternities, edited by Felicitas Corrigan, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, pp. viii - ix, 1. 3 |
Occupation | Marghanita Laski | After graduating from Somerville
, ML
began working as a journalist. During the war she held a succession of jobs, in publishing, dairy farming, nursing, and intelligence work. After the war ended, she became a... |
Occupation | Lucy Boston | Lucy Wood (later LB
) left Oxford University
to serve as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, first at St Thomas's Hospital
, London, then at Addenbrookes Hospital
, Cambridge, and then a military... |
Occupation | Vera Brittain | VB
left Somerville College
at the end of her first academic year to work as a VAD
. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 81 |
Occupation | Mary Augusta Ward | With Mrs Augustus Vernon Harcourt
, MAW
became inaugural secretary of the Somerville Committee
which was dedicated to the formation of a women's college at Oxford
. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 64 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. |
Occupation | Mary Augusta Ward | MAW
sat on the Council of the recently-founded Somerville College
for women. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 65 |
Occupation | Mary Augusta Ward | MAW
broke with Somerville College
after forming the Anti-Suffrage League
. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 65, 416 |
Occupation | Mary Somerville | MS
had serious artistic as well as scientific interests, and considerable skill as a painter. Landscapes and a self-portrait by her now hang at Somerville College, Oxford
. “Mary Somerville (1780 - 1872)”. askArt. |
Other Life Event | Helen Taylor | HT
presented John Stuart Mill
's library to Somerville College
, Oxford, where it became a working collection for students. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Other Life Event | Winifred Holtby | In December of the same year the Winifred Holtby Memorial Library
was founded in the Western Native Township of Johannesburg, South Africa. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 339 |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Daryush | A masque entitled Demeter by Robert Bridges
was performed in the college gardens by students of Somerville, Oxford
, to celebrate the opening of their new library; it included verses by his daughter Elizabeth
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Daryush | The masque was revived at Somerville
fifty years later, on 26 June 1954, and the University of South Carolina
holds a single-sheet publication from it. |
politics | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
continued to involve herself in the anti-vivisection and suffrage movements after her move to Wales. When the Conservative
government came into power in 1886 she pressed for female enfranchisement through party connections. In 1888... |
politics | Mary Augusta Ward | Her political views continued to create breaches in her previous alliances. In addition to the rift with Somerville College
, she was ousted from the National Union of Women Workers
. Her son Arnold
also... |
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