Sorbonne, University of Paris

She later studied at schools in Reading, and London. She favoured English poetry but her diligent studying was often overshadowed by her lack of discipline, personal disorderliness, and unruliness in the classroom...

In 1855 she probably published in The Biographical Magazine the life of Felicité de Lammenais , excommunicated French priest, literary critic, and translator, whom she met while studying at the Sorbonne . The article appeared...

She broke new ground again here, this time by including white characters who are important in themselves as well as by giving more attention to relationship between blacks and whites and to that between blacks...

Meanwhile she studied abroad as well. She was awarded a summer scholarship for the University for Foreigners at Perugia, then studied at the University of Rome, 1952-3, and in Venice on an Italian...

In 1898 he enrolled for a course on Irish and Homeric civilizations at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Here they kept up a front of marriage but led essentially separate lives. By 1924, VT had begun her first concerted, mature attempts at writing (including a play and a novel, both ultimately unpublished)...

Around 1924, when VT was attending classes at the Sorbonne , she wrote a play (unpublished and probably unperformed) about Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I titled Les soeurs ennemies.

Next RT 's mother sent her to another finishing school, this time in Paris and run by Roman Catholic nuns. By now she had the confidence to discharge herself and enroll instead on a course...