Education
From 1920 she attended Newnham College, Cambridge, where she was the first woman to gain first class honours in Oriental Languages.
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From 1920 she attended Newnham College, Cambridge, where she was the first woman to gain first class honours in Oriental Languages.
She was a scholar of Sanskrit, a poet and self-styled bard of the Cornish language. She formed Ferguson"s gang (under the mockney pseudonym Bill Stickers). On one occasion she donated £100 to the National Trust, wearing a full mask to preserve her anonymity.
Her husband died in 1968.
However, she remained an active poet and translator. She had given away much of her inherited wealth, and lived in one up,one down old tin miners cottage in Truro.
She remained a romantic figure, dressed in a long skirt and a scarf wrapped around her head
She was the founding member of Ferguson"s Gang, a secret society of supporters of the National Trust, who had their headquarters at Shalford Mill. By 1938 she had become a bard, and a member of the Cornish Gorsedd.
She was an enthusiastic supporter of campaigns to defend the landscape, language and traditions of Cornwall and rural England.