Somerville College, Oxford University

Having attended Somerville College, Oxford University , Catherine Greenfield (later CB ) received her BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature.

MK began studying at Somerville College, Oxford .

MG , an open scholarship student at Somerville College , received her Oxford Honours BA in English.

Catherine Greenfield (later CB ) received her MPhil in Medieval Literature from Oxford University, where she had pursued her graduate studies at Somerville College .

MK received the equivalent of a Second Class honours degree in History from Somerville College .

MG gives a very funny account of being interviewed for a place at Cambridge by Queenie Leavis , whose name she did not recognise, and talking confidently about Keats in ignorance of the way F. R. Leavis

DW took the equivalent of a BA Honours degree in English at Somerville College , Oxford, just the year before women were actually first admitted to Oxford degrees.

LB was educated first at local schools at Southport and Arnside, then at Downs School, Seaford,Sussex, and then at a Quaker school in Surrey. She went to a finishing school in Paris before...

WH went up to Somerville College , Oxford, as an undergraduate.

Her time at Malvern was probably financed by her paternal aunts. She changed her name to Doreen because her schoolmates included too many Eileens, and learned tennis, debating, and (her favourite subjects) literature, painting, music...

EJS , at Somerville College , received an Oxford BA in English, having begun her degree course in classics.

The school was run by Olive Willis , a graduate of Somerville College , Oxford, a very strong-willed and influential woman. The school was slightly irregular and amateurish, but the pupils were expected to...

WH returned to Somerville College , Oxford, after a year out for war service, to finish her degree course in History.

His mother, born Julia Arnold , was a younger sister of Mary Augusta Ward and a niece of Matthew Arnold . She took a first-class English honours degree at the new Somerville College, Oxford ...

PF 's mother, Christine (Hicks) Knox , a bishop's daughter, was one of the early graduates of Somerville College, Oxford , a moderate suffragist, and a writer (specialising in school abridgements of classic books). She...