Having learned to read as a girl, she became familiar with the Bible, with Shakespeare and Milton, with many standard histories, biographies, and essays, and with the poems of Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson and Robert Burns.
Having learned to read as a girl, she became familiar with the Bible, Shakespeare and Milton, numerous standard histories, biographies, and essays, and the poems of Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson, and Robert Burns.