Somerville College, Oxford University

Eileen Wallace (later Doreen) began writing poetry as a child, generally to console herself for unhappiness. At Oxford she formed, with Leon Geach and Dorothy Sayers , the Rhyme Club , whose pastime was...

DLS 's interest in translating began during her years at Oxford . Her financial success as detective novelist allowed her to return to it later in her career, as with her version of The Song...

As an undergraduate in Belfast, HW wrote poetry and delivered rousing addresses as President of the Christian Union . During the painful years before she became a graduate student at Somerville College ...

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 .

MAW sat on the Council of the recently-founded Somerville College for women.

MAW broke with Somerville College after forming the Anti-Suffrage League .

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 .

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...

VB left Somerville College at the end of her first academic year to work as a VAD .

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...

In December of the same year the Winifred Holtby Memorial Library was founded in the Western Native Township of Johannesburg, South Africa.WH 's will endowed Somerville College with the Dorothy McCalman Fund...

HT presented John Stuart Mill 's library to Somerville College , Oxford, where it became a working collection for students.

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 .

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.