PH
went to various schools. She was removed from her first NewYork public school because her grandmother objected to her making friends with black children. Then came a small and select private school which she...
It was, she said later, through reading that I passed from childhood to adulthood, first through a chance encounter with Eliot
's Adam Bede (and that was the end of the school stories)...
She was a shy, quiet girl and an overweight, anti-social adolescent, who used reading as an escape and refuge. She also loved...
Cultural formation
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
MEC
had a complicated relationship with her poor and working-class students. Although reading Tolstoy
inspired her charitable acts, the idea of freely mixing with the lower classes repelled her. She eventually settled on the controlled...