The most important of Cynthia's governesses, Charlotte Jourdain
, arrived on the scene when she was six, after the death of her brother Colin. Her arrival initiated a very important time in Cynthia's childhood, lasting...
Education
Mary Renault
When MR
arrived at St Hugh's College
, its reputation was at a very low ebb because of a series of events culminating in what was termed the Row. An Adventure, a book...
Textual Features
Lucille Iremonger
It relates the story told in a book called An Adventure, 1911, by Charlotte Moberly
and Eleanor Frances Jourdain
, Principal and Deputy Principal of St Hugh's College
(which LI
herself had attended). In...
