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Education | Elizabeth Jenkins | Then, during the years 1924-7, EJ
studied at Newnham College, Cambridge
. She realised the value of this education at the time, but not so profoundly as she did later. Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson. 18 |
Education | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
learned a lot in the library of her maternal grandfather, whose books, she says, were mostly [Henry] Irving
's rejects. Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner. 66 |
Education | Maya Angelou | Marguerite Johnson had already become a voracious reader, both of Black writers and of canonical dead white males. Shakespeare
, she wrote later, was my first white love. Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Heinemann New Windmill Series. 12 |
Education | Andrea Levy | AL
attended Highbury Hill Grammar School
, where she studied the Victorians on her history syllabus and Shakespeare
and the Metaphysical poets for A-level English (an exam which, she says, she nearly failed). She got... |
Education | Emily Hickey | She demonstrated an early interest in reading. Scott
, Tennyson
, and Barrett Browning
numbered among her early favourites. Her father, however, did not allow her to read Shakespeare
, as he was repelled by... |
Education | Maya Angelou | When at seven she moved from Stamps to St Louis and attended Toussaint L'Ouverture High School, Marguerite found the teachers more formal but the students comparatively backward. In a year there she felt she learned... |
Education | Emily Eden | She was educated at home by her mother, a tutor, and governesses. Under her mother's instruction, she read Boswell's Life of Johnson, the Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz, Shakespeare
, and knew a... |
Education | Frances Horovitz | As a sixth-form student, she went on a class trip to Italy, where she was introduced to the art of the Renaissance. Shakespeare
was another important discovery. Her class also took trips to the... |
Education | Ngaio Marsh | She enjoyed her years here much more than at her first school. It was here that she became quite fervently religious for a while, though neither of her parents shared her intense belief. The school... |
Education | Margaret Drabble | MD
has recalled how her father, newly demobbed after his wartime army service, patiently taught me to read from a primer called The Radiant Way. Later, Mary McCarthy
's The Group and Doris Lessing |
Education | Jan Struther | JS
was educated privately in London, going to classes held in a private home. She hated history and geography but loved literature. Her teacher, Miss Moseley, took the children through Shakespeare
before she began... |
Education | Kathleen Raine | |
Education | Brigid Brophy | BB
's education (disrupted by the second war) included attending a state school (coeducational) and private schools both boys', girls', and mixed-sex. She was intellectually precocious at every stage. As a little girl at the... |
Education | George Eliot | Her devotion to John Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress remained unchanged during this period. She also read heavyweight works of theology, Hannah More
's letters, and a life of William Wilberforce
. By late 1838, however... |
Education | Harold Pinter | HP
attended Hackney Downs Grammar School
, where he excelled at sports, particularly as a runner. Joe Brearley
, his teacher of English, was important in nurturing his love of poetry and drama, and casting... |
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