Leonardi, Susan J. Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville College Novelists. Rutgers University Press.
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Education | Doreen Wallace | At Somerville DW
became a close friend of Dorothy Sayers
(their religious and political disagreements later drove them apart) and in her circle met Vera Brittain
, Winifred Holtby
, and theSitwells
. Leonardi, Susan J. Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville College Novelists. Rutgers University Press. 57 |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy L. Sayers | DLS
and Doreen Wallace
became close friends when, in 1917, DLS
returned to Oxford as apprentice to Basil Blackwell. She shared with Wallace and Eleanore or Leon Geach
in membership of the Rhyme Club
. Reynolds, Barbara. Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul. Hodder and Stoughton. 76 Shepherd, June. Doreen Wallace, 1897-1989: Writer and Social Campaigner. Edwin Mellen Press. 19-20 |
Friends, Associates | Doreen Wallace | DW
's close friendships with Winifred Holtby
and Leon Geach
lasted until their untimely deaths. But that with Dorothy Sayers
ended in estrangement on religious and political grounds: the final straw was apparently DW
's... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Doreen Wallace | DW
and Leon Geach
(both students at Somerville College
) together published a poetry volume called Esques. Leonardi, Susan J. Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville College Novelists. Rutgers University Press. 56 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Doreen Wallace | Eileen Wallace (later Doreen) began writing poetry as a child, generally to console herself for unhappiness. Shepherd, June. Doreen Wallace, 1897-1989: Writer and Social Campaigner. Edwin Mellen Press. 11 |
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