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Degrees for Women - Somerville College Oxford. 1920. A Vindication. 42 years after the University of London and 28 years before Cambridge, Oxford finally allows women to take degrees. 300 Somervillians are retroactively qualified to graduate thanks to the foresight of Principal Emily Penrose.
It was created for women when universities refused them entry, and for people of diverse beliefs when the establishment religion was widely demanded. Now its female and male students represent the world and many Somervillians go on to change that world, too.
Somerville College was founded in 1879, one of the three Oxford women’s societies to open their doors to students in October of that year, along with Lady Margaret Hall and the Society of Home Students, later St Anne’s. Classes and teaching for women had expanded in Oxford during the 1870s.
About the college. Somerville is a warm, forward-looking and inclusive college with a streak of radicalism at its heart. Founded in 1879 to give women access to university education when many others wouldn’t, famous alumni include two former prime ministers, the only British woman to win a Nobel prize for science and pioneers in literature ...
Somerville College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford [3] in England, was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. Among its alumnae have been Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Dorothy Hodgkin, Iris Murdoch, Vera Brittain and Dorothy L. Sayers.
From its inception in 1879, Somerville College, founded as one of the first two institutions at the University of Oxford to admit women, had been dedicated to inclusion, explicitly welcoming students from all social backgrounds, any kind of cultural and religious beliefs, and all nationalities.
What's the History of Somerville College? Somerville College was founded in 1879 (the name then was “Somerville Hall”) by the Association for the Higher Education of Women. Their aim had been to create a college for women in Oxford. Edward Stuart Talbot, Warden of Keble College, was one of its prominent members but wanted an Anglican college.
