William Shakespeare

Mary Howitt , a friend of the Smith family, wrote approvingly of Benjamin Leigh Smith's unorthodox methods of childrearing: Objecting to schools he keeps his children at home, and their knowledge is gained by reading...

Her successive years with different guardians account for the apparent inconsistency in her comments about her education. In maturity she named her favourite youthful reading as Shakespeare , Molière , and Sterne . Yet she...

MEC was educated at home. She read widely during her childhood, including works by Shakespeare and Malory . She studied poetry, history and drawing. Saturday afternoons were spent with friends, acting scenes from Scott 's...

Together they carefully studied the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg and she was deeply influenced by Tulk's philosophy. They also read and studied Shakespeare .

FRH was an avid reader within limits: her selection of material was mostly dictated by her religious interests. After receiving a copy of a book about literary women she commented, The sad sketch of L. E. L.

She was educated at home under the influence of a father interested in music and classical scholarship. As a child she was noted for her prodigious memory and active imagination, and knew much of Shakespeare

She stayed at this school until the sixth form, but was always less committed to her lessons than to living in her transgressive imagination. Wondering what the nuns wore in bed was more interesting than...

AM was taught at home by both her mother and her father, with the help of masters for special accomplishments, and for a short time by a governess. Charlotte Yonge , who wrote of...

MA was a fluent reader and writer by the time she was seven years old. She then attended various schools, except for a period of learning at home with a governess after she had...

She lived in a King's College hostel in Queensborough Terrace near Hyde Park,London. The course included lectures on history and literature. The distinguished scholar Jack Isaacs lectured on Shakespeare , Donne , and Milton

Mr Kung despised fiction and the Sydenstricker library contained only the supposedly factual Plutarch 's Lives and Foxe 's Book of Martyrs, but Pearl read fiction avidly in both Chinese and English, devouring Shakespeare

Anna was educated by Miss Yokeley , a governess, who taught her French. After the departure of Miss Yokeley, some time between 1803 and 1806, Anna acted as governess to her sisters. She also taught...

Attending a secondary modern school (for those children not selected for grammar school) in Essex, on the north-east borders of London, she hated school and made a habit of sitting at the back...

MTL was educated in France at an Ursuline convent school. She later undertook further study in Italy. She consequently became familiar with both French and Italian. From her writings it is clear...

At school, SK directed plays by Shakespeare , as well as Joan Littlewood 's musical Oh, What a Lovely War. She took a BA degree in drama at Bristol University (first class honours), and...