R. G. Collingwood
At the age of 12, she attended St Paul's Girls' School in London, where she befriended Diana Hubback and Peggy Garnett. Through Garnett she met Douglas Jay, who influenced her intellectual development. She went up to Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford in 1931, where she read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and was tutored by R. G. Collingwood, John Fulton and Isaiah Berlin. Among the friends she made at Oxford were Berlin, Goronwy Rees, Christopher Cox, Herbert Hart and Ian Bowen; although her closest friendship was with Rees, she remains associated in historical literature with the later German "Widerstand" figure Adam von Trott zu Solz, then a Rhodes Scholar attending Balliol College who was romantically involved with her friend Diana Hubback.