On the advice of her lecturer, she entered for and won a Mature State Scholarship with an extended essay on one of Jane Austen's juvenilia, "Catherine, or the Bower", and its relationship to her mature work, and went up to Newnham College, Cambridge in 1963 to read English, graduating at the age of 31 with a first class degree. During her time at Cambridge, she wrote theatre criticism for The Guardian. Sue Limb, "Valerie Grosvenor Myer: Fervent communicator and university teacher in dangerous places", The Guardian, 15 August 2007. Retrieved 10 May 2013 Biography at GoodReads.com. Retrieved 10 May 2013
