William Shakespeare

Once married, CC set out to educate herself with books from the public library. She read the central canon in English from Shakespeare to the Romantics. She also read philosophy and found Socrates a help...

While she was still in her teens, although engaged in her second paid sexual relationship, her lover Frederic Lamb set out to get her reading Milton , Shakespeare , Byron , theRambler, Virgil

On her own the child AW was always reading. At eight she identified in someone else's house a photograph of Booker T. Washington —and asked, Why don't you give it to me, please? After...

She chose the medieval option. Her tutor was Rosemary Woolf , and she studied no authors later than Shakespeare . She reports the results of this in two different ways. In one version the course...

She loved reading and was passionately devouring Shakespeare by the age of six. She found it easy to remember poetry, and won a wager by committing Reginald Heber 's Europe, a poem of over...

EBB 's early immersion in fairy stories and popular tales was followed by a more ambitious course of reading that began around the age of seven with history, classical poetry, and some of Shakespeare 's...

PJ was educated at home first by her mother , who introduced her to the English Romantics. She was also taught by a governess in her early years. Chiefswood was full of books, and she...

At this stage of her life, Rosie's great interest and talent was not writing but painting, like her sister. She set out to make a huge, hanging, illustrated copy of Keats 's Ode to Autumn...

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...

In later years she expanded her reading to include Shakespeare , Southey , Scott , Wordsworth , and Tennyson . She also read Henry Drummond 's Natural Law in the Spiritual World and hisTropical Africa and Charles Lamb 's Letters.

EJ vividly remembered later Ellen Terry 's performance in Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet (which her mother took her to see when she was ten). But she did not register the full impact of Shakespeare...

In India, RG later wrote, it was thought there were five things a girl needed to know if she were to take her place in any sort of society: to dance, to play the...

Her self-education continued. She had a conversion experience on attending a performance of Hamlet after classroom study had put her off Shakespeare . She read all the works of all the great English novelists,

She had already begun courses to prepare for university entrance at the Lycée Bugeaud in Algiers a year earlier. In 1957 she earned her bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Bordeaux ...

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. She received her BA...