Wonderful material about W. H. Auden in Harborne! The Auden family moved to Birmingham from York in 1907 (or maybe 1908) just after little Wystan Hugh was born. His family still lived in Birmingham when he left for the US in 1939. I'm interested in the early schooling of W. H. Auden. He was sent off to preparatory school (an older bother already at St Edmund's School, Hindhead, Surrey) in 1915, where he stayed until he went to Gresham's School Norfolk, in 1920. But I'm interested in his very early education, before he went to borading school. Who taught him to read? Mrs Auden doesn't sound like the kind of mother who had the time. There is no mention of governesses, tutors, little local schools--nothing--in any of the biographies of Auden. Can any one help?--with education in Harborne (I guess we assume private education) in the years before the First World War? I can explain why I'm interested if anyone wants to know. It would just take rather a long time here! Carolyn