She attended the Girls ' Latin School of Chicago ( describing herself as an average student ), graduated in 1939, and later attended Smith College in Massachusetts, where she majored in English and drama and graduated in 1943.

She majored in folklore and mythology at Brown University, and has a master's degree in religious studies.

She attended the private girls ' school Brearley School in New York City and majored in music at Wellesley College.

She majored in Theater Arts and Education.

She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin, where she majored in history.

" She majored in engineering at Berkeley before switching to English.

She then majored in political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, graduating in 1969 and earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1972.

She majored in biology.

She majored in theater at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and later studied at the Yale School of Drama for her graduate degree and was a part of its theater company.

She majored in independent studies, which included Philosophy, Natural History, and Physics.

She graduated from New York University, where she majored in English, dramatic arts and speech.

She then attended Hunter College and double majored in history and drama.

She received a scholarship to attend Vassar College where she majored in history.

She majored in philosophy.

She later attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, where she majored in chemistry.

She first traveled to France as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, where she majored in French Cultural Studies, and immediately was drawn to the food and market culture around her.

She majored in theater at Wesleyan University, worked in summer stock productions during vacations, and graduated in 1978.

She attended Malone University and Ashland University, where she majored in radio / television production, programming and performance and minored in political science.

She majored in English at the University of Delaware.

She attended Sarah Lawrence College and majored in philosophy and art.

She majored in Economics at the Fergusson College, Pune.

She later attended Yale University where, as a student in Jonathan Edwards College, she majored in history and earned her bachelor's degree in 1977.

She majored in dance at Cal State Long Beach but left after one year to devote her time to work and theater.

She double majored in mathematics and music performance.

She was President of the Victorian Federation of States School Parents ' Clubs, an influential education lobby from 1971 to 1977 and its executive officer from 1978 to 1982.

She allowed the Victorian Trades Hall Council to influence government policy.

She possessed a brilliant bel canto technique and was considered a rival to the Victorian era's most famous diva, Adelina Patti.

She is probably best known for House, a large concrete cast of the inside of an entire Victorian house, and for her resin sculpture for the empty plinth in London's Trafalgar Square.

She revived old Victorian songs and ballads, many of which she retained for her performances in another revue entitled Riverside Nights.

She was somehow able to maintain an exalted position in the hearts of her Victorian audiences, regardless of how much and how often her behavior defied their strict moralities.

She never told Richard of the child, aware of his Victorian views, telling others she has a nephew she helps.

As the Victorian scholar Patrick Brantlinger notes in his introduction to She: " Little that Haggard witnessed matched the romantic depictions of ' the dark continent ' in boys ' adventure novels, in the press, and even in such bestselling explorers ' journals as David Livingstone's Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa ( 1857 ).

Indeed, Judith Wilt characterises the narrative of She, in which British imperialist penetration of Africa ( represented by Holly, Leo, and Job ) suddenly suffers a potential " counter-attack " ( from Ayesha ), as one of the archetypal illustrations of the " reverse colonalism " motif in Victorian Gothic.

Similarly, Sarah Gilbert sees the theme of feminine sexuality and authority realised in Ayesha as critical to the novel's success: " Unlike the women earlier Victorian writers had idealised or excoriated, She was neither an angel nor a monster.

The fantasy of She received particular acclaim from Victorian readers and critics.

Feminist literary theory identifies Ayesha's death in the fire as a punishment for her transgression of Victorian gender boundaries. Feminist literary historians have tended to define the figure of She as a literary manifestation of male alarm over the " learned and crusading new woman ".

According to the feminist interpretation of the narrative, the death of She acts as a kind of teleological " judgement " of her transgression of Victorian gender boundaries, with Ardis likening it to a " witch-burning ".

Indeed, far from being a radical or threatening manifestation of womanhood, recent academics have noted the extent to which the character of She conforms to traditional conceptions of Victorian femininity ; in particular her deferring devotion to Kallikrates / Leo, whom she swears wifely obedience to at the story's climax: "' Behold!

Two favourite cut-and-paste sources are Pedro Carolino ’ s English As She Is Spoke ( a failed Victorian English-Portuguese phrasebook once hailed by Mark Twain as a perfect example of absurdity ) and the nineteenth-century Irish poet George Darley.

She has also appeared in the films Clockwise, Top Tips, Sleeping with the Fishes and the BBC Victorian drama Station Jim.

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She was made a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order ( CVO ) on 1 January 2000.

She also worked as the campaign director for the Victorian state seat of Evelyn at the 1988 election.

She was the first woman from any political party to represent a rural electorate in the House of Representatives, and the first female Liberal elected to a Victorian seat.

She chaired this group with Victorian Senator Mitch Fifield.

She was Manager of International Development at the University of Melbourne, Director of Communications at the Victorian Farmers Federation, and a farmer before entering politics.

She served as Chairman of the Tonga Traditions Committee 1954 – 1965, patronised the Tonga Red Cross Society, was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( DBE ) in 1932, advanced to Dame Grand Cross ( GBE ) in 1945, appointed a Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order ( GCVO ) in 1953 and was the first Dame Grand Cross to be appointed to the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George ( GCMG ) in January 1965.

She served as Senate Select for Superannuation ( 1996 – 98 ); the Victorian Casino Inquiry ( 1996 ); the Lucas Heights Reactor ( 2000 ); Medicare ( 2003 – 04 ); and Mental Health ( 2005 ).

She studied the oboe, flute and piano during school and obtained her VCE at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary College.