A voracious reader who was largely self-educated, she had brief and informal public schooling during these years: about three years in a country school, from the ages of 11 to 14.
她的求知欲十分旺盛，基本上自学成才，只在公共学校进行过短暂和非正式的学习：11到14岁时在一所乡村学校学过3年。