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Education | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
learned a lot in the library of her maternal grandfather, whose books, she says, were mostly [Henry] Irving
's rejects. Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner. 66 |
Education | Maya Angelou | When at seven she moved from Stamps to St Louis and attended Toussaint L'Ouverture High School, Marguerite found the teachers more formal but the students comparatively backward. In a year there she felt she learned... |
Education | Emily Eden | She was educated at home by her mother, a tutor, and governesses. Under her mother's instruction, she read Boswell's Life of Johnson, the Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz, Shakespeare
, and knew a... |
Education | Frances Horovitz | As a sixth-form student, she went on a class trip to Italy, where she was introduced to the art of the Renaissance. Shakespeare
was another important discovery. Her class also took trips to the... |
Education | Ngaio Marsh | She enjoyed her years here much more than at her first school. It was here that she became quite fervently religious for a while, though neither of her parents shared her intense belief. The school... |
Education | Annie S. Swan | ASS
says her first conscious memory was of telling a quite deliberate lie at the age of five, and basely tempt[ing] two infant brothers to share my crime. Swan, Annie S. My Life. Ivor Nicholson and Watson. 14 |
Education | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna | CET
was self-taught, although she studied hard in her childhood, Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Education | Andrea Levy | AL
attended Highbury Hill Grammar School
, where she studied the Victorians on her history syllabus and Shakespeare
and the Metaphysical poets for A-level English (an exam which, she says, she nearly failed). She got... |
Education | Emily Hickey | She demonstrated an early interest in reading. Scott
, Tennyson
, and Barrett Browning
numbered among her early favourites. Her father, however, did not allow her to read Shakespeare
, as he was repelled by... |
Education | Carola Oman | The children's great delight was their mother reading aloud: theLamb
s' Tales from Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott
's poems, William Edmonstoune Aytoun
's Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, 1865, Mary Martha Sherwood |
Education | Freya Stark | Family friends sympathetic to Freya's feelings of entrapment at Dronero sent her gifts of books: she was especially passionate about Shakespeare
, Sir Walter Scott
, Byron
, Keats
, Kipling
, Shelley
, Wordsworth |
Education | Margaret Drabble | MD
has recalled how her father, newly demobbed after his wartime army service, patiently taught me to read from a primer called The Radiant Way. Later, Mary McCarthy
's The Group and Doris Lessing |
Education | Brigid Brophy | BB
's education (disrupted by the second war) included attending a state school (coeducational) and private schools both boys', girls', and mixed-sex. She was intellectually precocious at every stage. As a little girl at the... |
Education | George Eliot | Her devotion to John Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress remained unchanged during this period. She also read heavyweight works of theology, Hannah More
's letters, and a life of William Wilberforce
. By late 1838, however... |
Education | Constance Smedley | With her sister, CS
began her education at home with her mother as teacher. She read Shakespeare
at four years old, and later learned the violin. She and Ida were concert-goers from an early age... |
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