Charterhouse School

Joseph attended various schools, including Charterhouse , before going on to Oxford , where he was a member of two successive colleges. He later travelled to France and Italy on a grant from his college...

EBB was taught at home by her mother , who closely supervised her education, and by various tutors and a French governess. She was an early and voracious reader, and began writing letters when she...

Two years after his father died, the small WMT was sent from India to England to begin his education. His mother, who remarried, herself returned to England in 1819. Thackeray was educated at a number...

MC 's letters to her daughter , after she had returned from Continental Europe to London, are more family-focused than her earlier letters from her travels. Her tone about her children and grandchildren is often...