![]() ![]() Paul's, but girls' science education there emphasized neatness, repetition and thoroughness while denying them additional opportunities to use the laboratories to which boys were given freer access. Rosalind loved the study of science at St. ![]() ![]() Paul's, a west London day school known for its academic rigor, and there the competitive girl won prizes each year for everything from cricket to debating. Sent off at 9 to a boarding school after the birth of her only sister, the sometimes stormy and petulant Rosalind threw herself into her schoolwork and gained top place in her studies while becoming skilled in pastimes like hockey, swimming and drawing. ![]() In the words of a distant cousin, they lived "like Jewish Forsytes," and the "alarmingly" clever Rosalind enjoyed the pampering of adoring nannies, children's parties and vacations on the Cornish coast.įar brighter and more determined than her three brothers, 6-year-old Rosalind was especially adept at arithmetic. Both women were extremely talented in their respective fields both died before their own accomplishments could be savored the reputations of both were manipulated by men close to them.īut the Rosalind Franklin in Brenda Maddox's new biography is far too complex, too layered a personality, to fit comfortably into the role of feminist icon.īorn in July 1920 into a family "high in Anglo-Jewry," Rosalind came from a line of scholars and leaders who had successfully assimilated into British public life. SOME feminist historians like to compare British scientist Rosalind Franklin and poet Sylvia Plath. ![]()
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