William Shakespeare

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.

After the deaths of her parents Melesina Chenevix was committed to the care of a governess who had a determination to rule by rigour. . . . The fear and distaste I had for her...

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...

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...

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

At the age of twelve, SD attended her first theatrical event: an amateur production at Broughton Secondary School of Shakespeare 's Othello, which made a great impression.

Her successive years with different guardians account for the apparent inconsistency in her comments about her education. In maturity she named her favourite youthful reading as Shakespeare , Molière , and Sterne . Yet she...

Because of her mother's early death, MBE , she said later, was largely self-educated, her teachers being plenty of the best books. Apart from the family library, a half-guinea annual subscription to the Ipswich Mechanics' Institution

She was educated at home under the influence of a father interested in music and classical scholarship. As a child she was noted for her prodigious memory and active imagination, and knew much of Shakespeare

She attended elementary school, and then from 1952 Leaside High School in Toronto, both in the Protestant public school system operating in Ontario alongside a Catholic one. She and her schoolmates got prayers and...

She stayed at this school until the sixth form, but was always less committed to her lessons than to living in her transgressive imagination. Wondering what the nuns wore in bed was more interesting than...

The house had no books and when a lodger brought in Shakespeare, Milton , and Donne , they were pronounced unsuitable for a child. CC did read a Shakespeare sonnet at about this age and...

She lived in a King's College hostel in Queensborough Terrace near Hyde Park,London. The course included lectures on history and literature. The distinguished scholar Jack Isaacs lectured on Shakespeare , Donne , and Milton

She could read by four-and-a-half, and recalls an early admiration for hymns by Anna Letitia Barbauld and Maria Edgeworth . Julius Cæsar, the first Shakespearean play that she saw, left a lasting impression. Later...

Some years later she had a flirtation with the scholarly life that led her to register for a degree in Shakespeare Studies at the University of Birmingham . She abandoned this degree after a term...