1 She read Maths at Somerville, to general astonishment and the disgust of Captain Flint, who didn't speak to her for three weeks. He wan't against the idea of girls going to university, but he was a Cambridge man. He did, however, accept her refusal to go anywhere that didn't give women degrees.
2 John would never have got into the Navy as an officer if it had't been for her ruthless coaching in maths.
3 She was briefly in SOE during the war, and did a fine job, but an injury put paid to that. She's not sure whether she is ashamed of the part of her that was disappointed, or the part that was relieved. She ended up working at Bletchley, thanks to one of her old tutors, who had noticed her affinity for codes and puzzles when he found her devising a new signalling scheme for the use of the first boat...
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2 John would never have got into the Navy as an officer if it had't been for her ruthless coaching in maths.
3 She was briefly in SOE during the war, and did a fine job, but an injury put paid to that. She's not sure whether she is ashamed of the part of her that was disappointed, or the part that was relieved. She ended up working at Bletchley, thanks to one of her old tutors, who had noticed her affinity for codes and puzzles when he found her devising a new signalling scheme for the use of the first boat...