John Milton

Sheila was educated at Hastings, at St Leonard's Ladies' College (almost next-door to her home), from 1896 to 1905. Like many large private schools of the time, this one educated its pupils to eighteen...

At probably four years old AM read Anna Letitia Barbauld 's Lessons for Children (a composite title for her various books for the very young). With her reader Anne Caldwell, Barbauld achieved her aim of...

At a very young age, JR imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words...

Of her childhood, AG wrote that she developed early powers of imagination and memory, but received little attention: no one fondled or caressed me . . . I did not till the sixth year of...

Her first school, where she went at the age of six, was a little private establishment called Leopold House, which gave a grounding in English and maths and team games. When Betty was eleven...

FR denied that she knew Latin, yet she used Latin tags in her letters. As an adult she worked persistently at self-education. Her commonplace-book contains her reading notes on Plato , Aristotle , Pliny ,...

In the early 1780s she was reading such challenging authors as Milton , Plato , Plutarch , and Aristotle .

In later life she said she could never enjoy reading Milton because to her Paradise Lost was a lesson-book for learning English from.

At home her mother had read to her daughters, while they sewed, Greek and Roman history, and writers like Pope , and Cowper . At four Anna could recite long passages from Milton 's L'Allegro...

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

KR wrote that she grew up reading the Bible daily and memorising passages from it. Her mother could recite long passages from Milton and other English poets, besides Scottish poems and ballads. She was glad...

Following her passion for classics, AC enrolled in St Michael's College at the University of Toronto in 1968. However, for the first few years of her undergraduate degree she was not contented with her studies...

Three years after her highschool graduation, doors suddenly opened for ESVM to go to college, although her preparation had not reached the standard generally demanded. Donors offered to support her at Vassar College (through Caroline B. Dow

Poetry was always important to her. She said that Dante 's Paradiso had changed her life. Her friend Rev P. H. Wicksteed reported that she found Milton 's Comus an intense and enduring delight.

TD and Aru were briefly enrolled at a boarding school in Nice where they studied French. After moving to England they continued their studies and attended the Higher Lectures for Women series begun by Henry Sidgwick