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Lawrence's amazing ability has been nurtured by her father Harry and her mother Sylvia. A onetime computer consultant, Harry quit work in 1977 to concentrate on making prodigies of the girl and her younger sister Rebecca. Neither child has ever been to school. All their primary and secondary learning has come from Harry and Sylvia, at desks set up in the family kitchen in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. Partly as a result of this cozy tutorial, Ruth passed her high school-level exams at nine. Two years later, she won a scholarship at St. Hugh's College, scoring first...
...parental curtain between Ruth and the journalists trailing the celebrity scholar. "Her father . . . never closes his mouth," wrote a frustrated London Daily Express reporter, and "clings to his priceless pearl like a limpet." Meanwhile, in Huddersfield, Sylvia manages a job as a computer consultant and programmer while teaching Rebecca, who finished high school last month at eleven...
...Staff writer Rebecca A. Seesel can be reached at seesel@fas.harvard.edu...
...REBECCA L. STARR...
Ballad’s director, Rebecca Miller, is Arthur Miller’s daughter and co-writer of the 2005 screenplay of Proof. She and actor Daniel Day-Lewis (Last of the Mohicans) have been married since 1996. They met while Day-Lewis was working with Arthur Miller on the pre-production of the film version of The Crucible, and this is their first movie together...