She found Girton unexpectedly ugly, vast and chilling and gloomy.
Forster, Margaret. Hidden Lives. Viking, 1995.
233
It felt like a prison, whereas Somerville was merely disappointingly modern-looking but at least quite unthreatening.
Forster, Margaret. Hidden Lives. Viking, 1995.
234
Her interview with the Principal, Dame Janet Vaughan
Education
Ann Oakley
She found the welcoming talk by the Principal, Dame Janet Vaughan
, inspiring in its naming of old Somervillians, women who had made a difference in the public world. But, tutored by women in her...
Friends, Associates
Virginia Woolf
Virginia's tutor Janet Case
became her lifelong friend.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
143-4
In her late teens she had an array of female friends of ten to twenty years older than herself: Violet Dickinson
, philanthropic Quaker, Kitty Maxse
Timeline
About September 1936: British haemotologist Janet Vaughan realised...
Building item
About September 1936
British haemotologist Janet Vaughan
realised from work during the Spanish Civil War with the Committee for Spanish Medical Aid
that blood transfusions could be successfully made with stored blood.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
