 In 1947 she was the first editor of the short-lived film journal "Sequence" founded by Lindsay Anderson, Karel Reisz and Gavin Lambert at Oxford University, where she read modern history at Somerville College, and graduated from Oxford with a double first in 1949.For a year, she worked in Whitehall on research into the history of the second world war.In 1950, she joined "Sight & Sound", the journal of the British Film Institute, as Lambert's assistant.