Progress Report
1) Working title: Somerville College and its Literary Heritage 2) Abstract: Somerville College was one of the first Oxford colleges to admit women, during the period leading up to Somerville’s first granting of degrees—1920—the school was attended many writers and literary figures. Vera Brittain and Dorothy Sayers are perhaps the best-known of Somerville’s literary alumni, but many other female fiction writers who attended during approximately the same period have received little attention or recognition for their contributions to their respective genres and to women’s writing as a whole. This project sheds light on the literary figures who attended Somerville College between approximately 1910 and 1920. It provides both a visual representation of Somerville’s overlooked literary alumni and a digital catalogue of authors from this period. In doing so, this project seeks to highlight the lives and works of authors overlooked by the literary canon and demonstrate the powe