At home her mother had read to her daughters, while they sewed, Greek and Roman history, and writers like Pope
, and Cowper
. At four Anna could recite long passages from Milton
's L'Allegro...
Education
Vernon Lee
Violet also had several German and Swiss governesses. Marie Krebs Schülpbach
, who taught her at Thun in Switzerland when Violet stayed there in 1866-9, was especially influential: they read theGrimms
, Goethe
...
