At age six, which private day school did Rosalind Franklin join?

At age six, which private day school did Rosalind Franklin join? The answer is Norland Place School.

At six, Rosalind Franklin joined Norland Place School, a private day school in west London. She attended alongside her brother and quickly displayed the intellectual curiosity that later shaped her scientific career. A family description recalled that she enjoyed doing arithmetic for pleasure and usually got the answers right.

Norland Place was an early stage in a varied education. At nine, Franklin moved to Lindores School for Young Ladies, a boarding school in Sussex, partly because her family wanted a healthier seaside environment. At eleven, she entered St Paul’s Girls’ School in Hammersmith, one of the few girls’ schools in London then teaching physics and chemistry.

The main mix-up is with St Paul’s Girls’ School, which Franklin attended later and where her scientific interests developed more fully. Lindores was also later, and it was a boarding school rather than the private day school named in the question. Franklin went on to study at Newnham College, Cambridge.