AD
's mastery of Latin and her respectable knowledge of Greek were self-acquired, though Horace Walpole
had a hand in her education. She studied sculpture from childhood, being taught by Giuseppe Ceracchi
, John Bacon
Education
Janet Schaw
No facts are known for certain about JS
's education, but she seems to have been well-read. She took an informed interest in cultural customs, climate and landscape, and natural-world and scientific innovation. It seems...
Cultural formation
Alison Cockburn
She belonged to the established Church of Scotland
(that is, Presbyterian). She was not, however, an orthodox Calvinist; she had enough belief to combat the atheism of her friend David Hume
, but not such...
