William Shakespeare

PJ was educated at home first by her mother , who introduced her to the English Romantics. She was also taught by a governess in her early years. Chiefswood was full of books, and she...

MEC was educated at home. She read widely during her childhood, including works by Shakespeare and Malory . She studied poetry, history and drawing. Saturday afternoons were spent with friends, acting scenes from Scott 's...

Mr Kung despised fiction and the Sydenstricker library contained only the supposedly factual Plutarch 's Lives and Foxe 's Book of Martyrs, but Pearl read fiction avidly in both Chinese and English, devouring Shakespeare

EJ vividly remembered later Ellen Terry 's performance in Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet (which her mother took her to see when she was ten). But she did not register the full impact of Shakespeare...

HP attended Hackney Downs Grammar School , where he excelled at sports, particularly as a runner. Joe Brearley , his teacher of English, was important in nurturing his love of poetry and drama, and casting...

Her self-education continued. She had a conversion experience on attending a performance of Hamlet after classroom study had put her off Shakespeare . She read all the works of all the great English novelists,

KR wrote that she grew up reading the Bible daily and memorising passages from it. Her mother could recite long passages from Milton and other English poets, besides Scottish poems and ballads. She was glad...

MA was a fluent reader and writer by the time she was seven years old. She then attended various schools, except for a period of learning at home with a governess after she had...

The younger Margaret was taught at home, and became a precocious and devoted reader of Shakespeare and others. Her appetite for all kinds of literature was said to be insatiable. Travelling in France years...

She chose the medieval option. Her tutor was Rosemary Woolf , and she studied no authors later than Shakespeare . She reports the results of this in two different ways. In one version the course...

AG and her sisters received little formal education; their lessons took second place to their brothers'. Under her evangelical mother's strict supervision, they were taught by a succession of governesses and tutors, who...

Attending a secondary modern school (for those children not selected for grammar school) in Essex, on the north-east borders of London, she hated school and made a habit of sitting at the back...

Then, during the years 1924-7, EJ studied at Newnham College, Cambridge . She realised the value of this education at the time, but not so profoundly as she did later. She received her BA...

PHJ learned a lot in the library of her maternal grandfather, whose books, she says, were mostly [Henry] Irving 's rejects. She had read the entire works of Shakespeare by the age of eight...

It hurt her pride that she made the scholarship list only after someone else had declined. She travelled daily by milk cart and milk train to this old-fashioned, rigorous school where teachers routinely used ridicule...