Maud Lady Tree

VT 's mother, Maud (Holt) Tree , taught classics at Queen's College , Harley Street (a secondary, not post-secondary school for girls), but longed to be a university lecturer at Girton College .

IT 's mother, Maud (Holt) Tree , taught classics at Queen's College , Harley Street and harboured the ambition of becoming an academic at Girton College .

ES had many friendships, and there were few notables in the artistic world whom she did not meet. Her friendships were quite volatile, with frequent quarrels, sometimes caused by the practical jokes and the heightened...

VT 's early education took place privately, at home, because her parents rejected the idea of sending their daughters to schools. As a result, she had twenty-five different governesses, each lasting only a short while...