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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. --book Jacket. 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. Univer

Author

Adams, Pauline

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199201822

Subjects

Education, History