Education
She went to school at St George's School, Harpenden where she became Head Girl.
Her university education was at Somerville College, Oxford. (Somerville at that time was a women's college, known in Oxford as "the bluestocking college".) There she read Greats (the Oxford term for traditional courses in the humanities, with emphasis on the ancient classics of Greece and Rome, including philosophy).
The drug smuggler Howard Marks was a student at Balliol College, Oxford while Frances was at Somerville. In his autobiography Mr. Nice he describes her as "vivacious". The book contains an anecdote of Marks dropping acid for the first time before visiting Frances in her rooms. While they sat listening to The Rolling Stones, Marks described to her the trip he was experiencing.
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