In popular culture The mystery novel Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers featuring Lord Peter Wimsey is set in Shrewsbury College, which is a thinly veiled take on Sayers' own Somerville College (although in a different location). In the 2014 film The Amazing Spider-Man 2 directed by Marc Webb, one of the protagonists, Gwen Stacy, is offered a place to study medicine at Somerville. Its coat of arms is featured in one scene. The 2014 biopic Testament of Youth, based on Brittain's memoir of the same name, substituted Merton College, Oxford in the scenes showing Brittain's time as a student at Somerville, arguing that filming in Somerville itself would have been too difficult in light of the new buildings constructed there since the film's time period. Somerville is the recognisable model for St Bride's College in Michaelmas Term at St Bride's by Brunette Coleman (Philip Larkin). In the film Iris from 2001, telling of alumna Iris Murdoch and her relationship with her husband John Bayley, whom she meets during a dinner at the Somerville. Somerville is featured in the BBC series Testament of Youth (1979). In the Japanese manga series Master Keaton, the main character married a mathematics student from Somerville. St Jerome's College in Endymion Spring by alumnus Matthew Skelton is based on Somerville. The cat Mephistopheles is based on the former college cat Pogo. Amory Clay, the main character in Sweet Caress by William Boyd, was encouraged by her teacher to go to Somerville. Grace Ritchie, the protagonist in Slave Of The Passion by Deirdre Wilson has gone up to Somerville. Helena Warner from A Likeness in Stone by Julia Wallis Martin, was a student of Somerville. Eleanor Drummond, the protagonist in Daddy's Girl by Valerie Mendes, went to Somerville.
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