As a student of French and Italian (in both of which she became fluent)
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
and as an Egyptologist she was self-taught. Her cousin quoted her as saying I can never learn of others ....
Friends, Associates
Caroline Frances Cornwallis
CFC
had a large and diverse group of friends and acquaintances who shared her multitude of interests. Some were scientists, like Michael Faraday
; others were scholars, such as Sismondi
and the orientalist Samuel Birch
