Editing Rosalind Franklin (section)

===Education===
From early childhood, Franklin showed exceptional scholastic abilities. At age six, she joined her brother Roland at [[Norland Place School]], a private day school in West London. At that time, her aunt Mamie (Helen Bentwich), described her to her husband: "Rosalind is alarmingly clever – she spends all her time doing arithmetic for pleasure, and invariably gets her sums right."<ref>Maddox, p. 15.</ref> Franklin also developed an early interest in [[cricket]] and [[field hockey|hockey]]. At age nine, she entered a boarding school, Lindores School for Young Ladies in Sussex.<ref name=berger>{{cite web |last1=Berger |first1=Doreen |title=A Biography of The Dark Lady Of Notting Hill |url=http://www.theus.org.uk/article/biography-dark-lady-notting-hill |publisher=United Synagogue Women |access-date=7 February 2015 |date=3 December 2014 |archive-date=4 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604135134/http://www.theus.org.uk/article/biography-dark-lady-notting-hill |url-status=dead }}</ref> The school was near the seaside, and the family wanted a good environment for Franklin's delicate health.<ref>Maddox, p. 21–22.</ref>

Franklin was 11 when she went to [[St Paul's Girls' School]] in [[Hammersmith]], west London, one of the few girls' schools in London that taught physics and chemistry.<ref name=berger/><ref>Glynn, p. 25.</ref><ref>Sayre, p. 41.</ref> At St Paul's, she excelled in science, Latin,<ref>Maddox, p. 30.</ref> and sports.<ref>Maddox, p. 26.</ref> Franklin also learned German, and became fluent in French, a language she would later find useful. Franklin topped her classes, and won annual awards. Her only educational weakness was in music, for which the school music director, the composer [[Gustav Holst]], once called upon her mother to enquire whether she might have suffered from hearing problems or [[tonsillitis]].<ref>Glynn, p. 28.</ref> With six distinctions, Franklin passed her matriculation in 1938, winning a scholarship for university, the School Leaving Exhibition of £30 a year for three years, and £5 from her grandfather.<ref>Glynn, p. 30.</ref> Franklin's father asked her to give the scholarship to a deserving refugee student.<ref name=berger/>