Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Adams, Pauline.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

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Description

xviii, 394 pages 25 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

• 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, first to gain acceptance by a male university, and then to survive within a mixed one, it is a domestic history of much more than domestic interest.
• Drawing on a rich archive, and a wide range of published sources, it provides significant insights into the history of the University and touches on many aspects of women's studies. The concluding account of the circumstances leading in 1992 to the controversial decision to admit men raises a number of issues of importance for higher education in general and Oxford in particular.

Subject

• Somerville College (University of Oxford) History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 364 - 369) and index.

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.

ISBN

• 019920179X
• 019920182X (pbk.)

LCCN

95049172

OCLC

• 33440780
• ocm33440780

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries