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Individual Alumnae (ANN/A)

This section of the archive is currently uncatalogued. Please find a summary below. 

Alumnae whose papers were donated to the College, either directly or via family members. 

(Surnames are those used while at SOHS/St Anne’s. Married/later names are in brackets).

  • Burgess, Joan (Munroe) (1922-2013, m. 1941) – Teacher. File of correspondence and personal papers (to provide background to a major donation to the College).
  • Clarke, Audrey (Macbeth/d'Orville Pilkington Jackson) (1902-1999, m. 1925) – Donated a Book of Hours to the College Library. (Married sculptor Charles d'Orville Pilkington Jackson) Memoirs, scrapbook and correspondence.
  • Clapp, Mary Welles (1879-1964, m. 1921) – Chinese jade seal, donated to the College. 
  • Comper, Frances Margaret Mary (1869-1942, SOHS 1894) – Typescript copy of Hans Andersen’s Fairy-Tale: a play in four acts by W Oestergaard, translated by Karen M Möller, revised by F M Comper (no date).
  • Dagnall, Marjorie Kathleen Mary (Grindle) (1910-1952, m. 1929) – Pocket diaries and notebooks for her time as an undergraduate at Cherwell Edge, her first job as Advertising Manageress with Allen and Unwin (1938-1940), and the work of her husband Richard Grindle as an Officer in Counter-Intelligence (1938-1945).
  • Eardley-Wilmot, Hazel Mary (1910-1998, m. 1928) – Author. Papers on post-war Czechoslovakia (notes for unpublished novel, plus drafts), and archaeology/ecology/Exmoor.
  • Fitzgerald, Mabel Purefoy (1872-1973), Physiologist. (Not a SOHS/St Anne’s student but she received an Oxford Honorary Degree in 1972, age 100, and her papers were donated to St Anne’s) –Photographs; Honorary MA certificate; memoir by R Torrance; cutting from Oxford Mail, 14 Dec 1972, (with photographs) about her receiving her degree at the age of 100.
  • Flint, Helen (Lawlor) (1952-2000, m. 1972) – Novelist and poet. Working notes, manuscripts, drafts and correspondence.
  • Handover, Phyllis Margaret (1923-1974, m. 1941) – Research assistant to typographer Stanley Morrison. Working notes and correspondence on the history of book production and printing/typography, including examples of early newspapers. Her book collection was also donated to the College Library.
  • Hensman, Bertha (1907-1994, m. 1958) – Author. Lecture notes from her time at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a collection of typescripts for her books and an undated photograph album of a trip in Kashmir.
  • Remnant, Mary (1935-2020, m. 1962) – Early music scholar. Papers on musical performances and associated details.
  • Skurray, Frances Clare (Spurgin) (1897-1986, m. 1921) – Lay magistrate and youth justice activist. Correspondence, publications and notes. 
  • Spokes, Ann Hazel (Spokes Symonds) (1925-2019, m. 1944) – Author and former Lord Mayor of Oxford. Photos and some personal papers.
  • Thomas, Mary (1906-2009, m. 1925) – Author and former Far East Prisoner of War, 1942-1945. Watercolours and exhibition catalogue. Books and papers relating to the fall of Singapore, 1942.
  • Whitehead, Gilia (Slocock) (1936-2020, m. 1955). Archive of resources on Saint Anne. Books, pictures and research notes about depictions of Saint Anne in art in the UK - for the publication of Saint Anne in History & Art. Oxford: St Anne’s College, 1999.