William Shakespeare

JJ studied English at Trinity College, Dublin . She had trouble getting in, and once she was there she became disillusioned with what was on offer—just sitting in a class of an enormous size, listening...

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...

In India, RG later wrote, it was thought there were five things a girl needed to know if she were to take her place in any sort of society: to dance, to play the...

Her education under her next governess, Squidge (an Austrian called Miss Fraulein by everyone but Cynthia), was a quite different matter: Beauman writes that Squidge had a heart but no mind. Nevertheless, by sixteen Cynthia...

She was taught at home by her father. He encouraged her to read widely, introduced her to English poetry and Shakespeare , and taught her Latin and Greek.

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. Her mother took care to cultivate...

In later years she expanded her reading to include Shakespeare , Southey , Scott , Wordsworth , and Tennyson . She also read Henry Drummond 's Natural Law in the Spiritual World and hisTropical Africa and Charles Lamb 's Letters.

Following her marriage, she studied German, French, and Italian, as well as the works of Shakespeare and the novels of George Eliot .

CET was self-taught, although she studied hard in her childhood, and memorized a great deal of Shakespeare .

ESVM said her mothergave me poetry. In her mother's Shakespeare she encountered the passage in Romeo and Juliet about Death seeking Juliet as his paramour, and she later hyperbolically described the encounter: how...

She loved reading and was passionately devouring Shakespeare by the age of six. She found it easy to remember poetry, and won a wager by committing Reginald Heber 's Europe, a poem of over...

After studying at RADA, NS went on the stage, where she gained experience of everything from classic roles to revues and pantomime. Her first engagement was with the Charles DoranShakespeare an Company where she...

Before she was fifteen MAK fell in love with a young nobleman, an undergraduate who had been at school with her brother. His nodding civilly to her at a concert, by promoting me to...

CS 's father, William Thomas Smedley , was a chartered accountant and company director, a philanthropist, a free-thinker, and a bibliophile. His magnificent Shakespeare -Bacon book collection, including more than a hundred volumes of...

Amelia B. Edwards , cousin of MBE , became known as a novelist, travel-writer, and Egyptologist. Matilda got to know her well while serving as a governess-pupil at Mimosa House in Peckham...