Somerville for women : an Oxford college, 1879-1993 /

Somerville for Women is the first history to appear for 75 years of the pioneering Oxford women's college whose alumnae include a Nobel prize-winner for chemistry, two prime ministers, and a whole school of novelists. As an account of the strategies adopted by an academic community of women, fi...

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Main Author: Adams, Pauline
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Origins: A Question of Denomination
  • 2. Madeleine Shaw Lefevre and Somerville Hall, 1879-1889
  • 3. Collegiate Ambitions: The Principalship of Agnes Maitland, 1889-1906
  • 4. Towards University Recognition: The Early Principalship of Emily Penrose, 1907-1914
  • 5. Interlude at Oriel, 1915-1919
  • 6. 'The Life of an English Family' 1879-1919
  • 7. University Membership and College Charter, 1920-1926
  • 8. Limitation and Jubilee: The Principalship of Margery Fry, 1927-1931
  • 9. Controversy and Consolidation under Helen Darbishire, 1931-1939
  • 10. 'A Wider World': College Life Between the Wars
  • 11. Somerville and the 'Isle of Man', 1939-1945
  • 12. Post-War Reconstruction: The Principalship of Janet Vaughan, 1945-1967
  • 13. Barbara Craig and the Beginning of the Co-residence Debate, 1967-1980
  • 14. 'Difficult Places': The Principalship of Daphne Park, 1980-1989
  • 15. College Life since 1945
  • 16. Somerville for Men?
  • Postscript: The Somerville Tradition.