page_title: List of Somerville College, Oxford, people
section_title: Authors
hierarchical_section_title: List of Somerville College, Oxford, people / Alumni / Authors
caption_attribution_description: Esperanto: Marjorie Boulton je la Universala Kongreso de Esperanto en Berlino.
context_page_description: The following is a list of notable people associated with Somerville College, Oxford, including alumni and fellows of the college. This list consists almost entirely of women, due to the fact that Somerville College was one of the first two women's colleges of the University of Oxford, admitting men for the first time in 1994. The college and its alumni have played a very important role in feminism.
  Somervillians include prime ministers Margaret Thatcher and Indira Gandhi, Nobel-Prize-winning scientist Dorothy Hodgkin, journalist Esther Rantzen, reformer Cornelia Sorabji, writers Marjorie Boulton, Vera Brittain, A. S. Byatt, Susan Cooper, Penelope Fitzgerald, Winifred Holtby, Nicole Krauss, Iris Murdoch and Dorothy L. Sayers, politicians Shirley Williams, Margaret Jay and Sam Gyimah, Princess Bamba Sutherland and her sister, philosophers Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley and Onora O'Neill, archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon, actress Moon Moon Sen, soprano Emma Kirkby and numerous activists.
context_section_description: Janet Adam Smith OBE (1905–1999), writer, editor, literary journalist and champion of Scottish literature; assistant editor of The Listener
  Caroline Alexander (1956), American author and classicist; first woman to publish a full-length English translation of Homer's Iliad
  Jo Baker (1973), writer; author of Longbourn
  Elspeth Barker (1940), Scottish novelist and journalist
  Reem Bassiouney (1973), Egyptian author and professor of sociolinguistics; Sawiris Cultural Award winner
  Nina Bawden CBE FRSL JP (1925–2012), novelist and children's writer; shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Lost Man Booker Prize; one of very few who have both served as a Booker judge and made a Booker shortlist as an author; winner of the Guardian Prize and Phoenix Award
  Lucy M. Boston (1892–1990), novelist who wrote for children and adults; best known for her "Green Knowe" series; winner of the Carnegie Medal
  Marjorie Boulton (1924–2017), author and poet writing in both English and Esperanto
  Vera Brittain (1893–1970), Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist; author of Testament of Youth
  Christine Brooke-Rose (1923–2012), writer and literary critic, known principally for her later, experimental novels
  Dame A. S. Byatt DBE HonFBA (1936), novelist, poet and Booker Prize and Erasmus Prize winner; one of The 50 greatest British writers since 1945; author of Possession: A Romance
  Anne Crone (1915–1972), Irish novelist and teacher
  Rosemary Dinnage (1928–2015), author and critic; listed by The Observer as one of Britain's top 300 intellectuals in 2011
  Gertrude Minnie Faulding (1875–1961), novelist and children's writer
  Penelope Fitzgerald (1916–2000), writer, Booker Prize winner, one of The 50 greatest British writers since 1945; her final novel, The Blue Flower is seen as one of "the ten best historical novels" and won the National Book Critics Circle Award
  Margaret Forster (1938–2016), novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and literary critic; author of Georgy Girl and Diary of an Ordinary Woman
  Celia Fremlin (1914–2009), writer of mystery fiction; winner of the Edgar Award
  Maggie Gee OBE FRSL (1948), novelist, one of six women among the 20 writers on the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list in 1983; first female Chair of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL)
  Victoria Glendinning CBE (1937), biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist; honorary Vice-President of English PEN; winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature
  Judith Grossman, American writer
  Alix Hawley (1975), Canadian novelist
  Emma Henderson (1958), author; shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
  Joanna Hines (1949), writer
  Jane Aiken Hodge (1917–2009), American-born writer, daughter of Conrad Aiken
  Winifred Holtby (1898–1935), novelist, journalist and suffragist, now best known for her novel South Riding and editor of the feminist magazine Time and Tide. The rights to the book were given to Somerville by Holtby on her death. The Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize was named after her.
  Muriel Jaeger (1892–1969), author who wrote early novels of science fiction as well as plays and non-fiction
  Svava Jakobsdóttir (1930–2004), one of Iceland's foremost 20th Century authors and feminist politicians
  Liz Jensen FRSL (1959), novelist
  Daisy Johnson (1990), writer; youngest author to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize; winner of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize
  Margaret Kennedy (1896–1967), novelist and playwright; author of The Constant Nymph
  Nicole Krauss (1974), American author best known for her four novels Man Walks Into a Room, The History of Love, Great House and Forest Dark (which won an award from the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards); selected as one of The New Yorker's "20 Under 40" writers to watch.
  Marghanita Laski (1915–1988), journalist, radio panellist and novelist
  Margaret Leigh (1894–1973), writer who lived extensively in Scotland and wrote about life in crofting communities
  Gillian Linscott (1944), author and winner of the CWA Historical Dagger
  Dame Rose Macaulay DBE (1881–1958), writer, most not
caption: Marjorie Boulton
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