| Description | This material consists of marked essays, assignments and other schoolwork written by Cynthia Curzon while she was a pupil at The Links boarding school in Eastbourne in 1916. Most of the work is written on loose leaf lined paper, but there is also an exercise book kept by Cynthia during the spring term of 1916 which contains notes on Anglo Saxon and medieval English literature. The majority of the essays and assignments are written on the subject of the poems of Robert Browning; other assignments include essays on English and European history, French literature, written in French, and a page of Geography questions.
Associated material included in this file consists of a handwritten ode to a teacher, presumably composed by Cynthia, and a handwritten list compiled by Cynthia which contains the names of pupils at The Links during the spring and summer terms of 1916, divided by the class they were in at the time. This list also contains the names of the mistresses at the school, and of teachers from outside who taught classes there. The file also contains notes on headed writing paper from Cynthia's home at Hackwood, Basingstoke, relating to Christian doctrine, probably written as part of the preparation for her confirmation in 1914 |