 Her father was too busy in his professional and philosophical pursuits, to pay much attention to his daughter's education, and her mother went no farther in the course of her studies, than to see that she was industrious, and could give a good account of her time.In school, Canfield was at the head of her class, and acquired languages with such readiness, that her instructors often suspected her father of devoting his time to bringing her forward, when he hardly knew what she was studying at the time.She made translations from the French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese, for mere amusement, or for school exercises; and many of them were preserved by her friends, and showed unquestionable evidences of genius.