At age nine, which Sussex boarding school did Franklin enter?

At age nine, Franklin entered Lindores School, a boarding school in Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex.

Lindores was an early stage in Franklin’s education before she moved to St Paul’s Girls’ School in Hammersmith at age 11. Her family valued education, and Franklin’s later schooling gave her unusually strong preparation in science for a girl of her generation.

The common mix-up is with St Paul’s Girls’ School, where Franklin spent her formative secondary-school years and excelled in physics and chemistry. Lindores was the earlier boarding school she entered as a child, not the school where she became known for her scientific ability.

Franklin later studied at Newnham College, Cambridge, and became an X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to understanding DNA, coal, graphite, and viruses.