Somerville College, Oxford University

As a member of Somerville 's Mutual Admiration Society MJ must already have been writing, since the group existed for the purpose of mutual literary encouragement. She collaborated with Dorothy Sayers in writing, and performing...

Three years after MK had earned her second-class history degree from Somerville College , she published a volume of French history commissioned from her by A. L. Smith , the Master of Balliol: A Century...

DW and Leon Geach (both students at Somerville College ) together published a poetry volume called Esques.

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...

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...

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.