Education
Hussey was educated privately at home, at Trowbridge High School for Girls (now The John of Gaunt School), and at the Lycée Victor Duruy in Paris. She went on to Street Hugh"s College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor and Master of Arts in Modern History in 1925. Following a period of supervision under Sir David Ross, she moved to the University of London and in 1935 completed a Doctor of Philosophy supervised by Norman H. Baynes.