It was said that she read Molière
at twelve, and that she disguised herself as a boy in order to study at Cambridge University
.
All this, however, belongs to a dubious area of fictionalisation...
Education
Elma Napier
Beginning around 1904, EN
attended a series of boarding schools, including the expensive and exclusive St James's School near West Malvern in Worcestershire, the Catholic Convent at Teignmouth, and Miss Rosina Filippi
's...
Education
Mary Cowden Clarke
Some years after her brother Alfred's time at Boulogne in France, she followed him in staying in the same family, that of Monsieur Bonnefoy
, who ran a school in his house. Lessons, theatre...
