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Education | Elizabeth Jenkins | 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... |
Education | Joan Riley | As a young child in Jamaica, JR
says she found escape from the harsh realities of her life on the shelves of the local library. Reading whatever was available, she ranged from Shakespeare
to... |
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 | Augusta Gregory | AG
and her sisters received little formal education; their lessons took second place to their brothers'. McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, pp. xi - xliv, 525. xiii |
Education | Sarah Daniels | 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... |
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 | 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... |
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