ABSTRACT
Susan Isaacs left school at fourteen or fifteen years, it was not unusual for girls of this age to stop their schooling in order to help out at home. Except when she had a job or was away, after she had spent the early morning helping with household tasks, Susan spent her time reading or, in the afternoons, going for walks over the moors alone, or more frequently, with one or more of her sisters. When Susan Fairhurstt left Manchester she could look with pride on a record of academic success, the achievement of great prominence in student societies and she could contemplate, for the first time, the possibility of an intimate relationship with a man. She must have felt her undergraduate career had been as fulfilling as she could have hoped for. She was off to Cambridge and postgraduate study.
