Elizabeth Imlay, MA Oxon, was born into a Freethinking family,her father being a classical scholar and her mother a linguist. She waseducated at a school for the daughters of Evangelical missionaries, where sheobtained a thorough grounding in the Bible, French and Latin. She read EnglishLanguage and Literature at Oxford, which at that time demanded a knowledge ofFrench, Latin, Anglo-Saxon and Middle and Modern English. She has worked inpublishing and journalism and is now a widow with two grown-up children.
