 She read Classics at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and won a scholarship to study for an MA in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute, London, specialising in Titian, Venice and Renaissance Europe.In 2013, she was awarded a PhD in Classics and Art History from University College London with a thesis exploring ekphrasis in Greek and Latin poetry and sixteenth-century Italian painting.She was long-listed in 2015 for the international Notting Hill Editions Prize for the essay "An Unlikely Friendship".