Somerville College, Oxford University

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Textual Production Ann Oakley
While she was a student at Chiswick Polytechnic , Ann Titmuss (later AO ) had an article entitled Socialism and Me printed in the college bulletin.
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.
At Oxford she wrote poems to her future husband...
Textual Production Charlotte Perkins Gilman
CPG 's correspondence with Vernon Lee (on whom she was an important influence) survives among Lee's papers at Somerville College , Oxford.
Zorn, Christa. Vernon Lee: Aesthetics, History, and the Victorian Female Intellectual. Ohio University Press, 2003.
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Scharnhorst writes that her papers once in her daughter's hands were...
Textual Production Margaret Kennedy
As an undergraduate at Somerville College , MK wrote two of the end-of-year Going-Down plays. She contributed to the college magazine, The Fritillary, a parody of a tutorial.
Leonardi, Susan J. Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville College Novelists. Rutgers University Press, 1989, 254 p.
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Textual Production E. J. Scovell
EJS began writing poetry in early childhood because of a love of meter and rhyme.
qtd. in
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
As an undergraduate at Oxford she was placing her poetry in university journals. She was one of the few women...
Textual Production Dorothy L. Sayers
Meanwhile, as a Somerville undergraduate she wrote for the college paper, The Fritillary, and for a group which she formed and which called itself the Mutual Admiration Society. She wrote most of the...
Textual Production Vernon Lee
Important collections of her papers are held at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, at Somerville College , Oxford, and at the British Institute in Florence.
Zorn, Christa. Vernon Lee: Aesthetics, History, and the Victorian Female Intellectual. Ohio University Press, 2003.
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Textual Production Willa Muir
WM had a Shetlander's particular interest in the Auvergnat language: a local dialect of Occitan (which itself proved to be the historically non-dominant form of French). The owners and operators of the Samson Press were...
Wealth and Poverty Emily Jane Pfeiffer
Money from the Pfeiffer trust was also given to Newnham , Girton , and Somerville College s, and many other institutions and agencies promoting women's education, including the Maria Grey Training College and the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women
Wealth and Poverty John Stuart Mill
Helen Taylor arranged for the gift in 1905 of his books (those that were in England, not in Avignon, when he died) to Somerville College, Oxford , where they make a valued and now much-studied...
Wealth and Poverty Helen Taylor
Following Mill 's death, HT inherited the house in Avignon which he had bought in order to be close to her mother 's grave.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
She arranged for the presentation in 1905 to Somerville College, Oxford

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