AF
(like the future Naomi Mitchison
before her) attended the Dragon School
in Oxford (a boys' preparatory school, taking children from about eight to thirteen). In her day it had twenty girls out of a...
Education
Naomi Mitchison
After leaving the Dragon School
, Naomi Haldane (later NM
) was educated at home by a well-meaning but badly prepared governess, Miss Blockley.
Benton, Jill. Naomi Mitchison: A Biography. Pandora, 1992.
15, 17
Education
Naomi Mitchison
Since NM
's mother was committed to feminist principles of education for women, Naomi attended a private school for boys, the Dragon School
(formerly known as the Oxford Preparatory School), at Oxford with her brother...
Performance of text
Naomi Mitchison
Saunes Bairos: A Study in Recurrence, a play written by the fifteen-year-old Naomi Haldane (later NM
), had a private performance at the Dragon School
.
Squier, Susan M., and Naomi Mitchison. “Naomi Mitchison: The Feminist Art of Making Things Difficult”. Solution Three, Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 1995, pp. 161-83.
166
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Antonia Fraser
She writes here of her childhood in Oxford, attendance at the Dragon School
for Boys, her wartime evacuation to an excitingly Elizabethan manor house and her discovery of family-connected great houses in Ireland: Dunsany...