William Shakespeare

Her education under her next governess, Squidge (an Austrian called Miss Fraulein by everyone but Cynthia), was a quite different matter: Beauman writes that Squidge had a heart but no mind. Nevertheless, by sixteen Cynthia...

She was taught at home by her father. He encouraged her to read widely, introduced her to English poetry and Shakespeare , and taught her Latin and Greek.

At the age of twelve, SD attended her first theatrical event: an amateur production at Broughton Secondary School of Shakespeare 's Othello, which made a great impression.

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...

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...

She attended elementary school, and then from 1952 Leaside High School in Toronto, both in the Protestant public school system operating in Ontario alongside a Catholic one. She and her schoolmates got prayers and...

The house had no books and when a lodger brought in Shakespeare, Milton , and Donne , they were pronounced unsuitable for a child. CC did read a Shakespeare sonnet at about this age and...

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

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...

Because of her mother's early death, MBE , she said later, was largely self-educated, her teachers being plenty of the best books. Apart from the family library, a half-guinea annual subscription to the Ipswich Mechanics' Institution

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

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 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...

The younger Margaret was taught at home, and became a precocious and devoted reader of Shakespeare and others. Her appetite for all kinds of literature was said to be insatiable. Travelling in France years...

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...