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Frances Lincoln went to school at [[St George's School, Harpenden]], where she became [[Head Girl]]. Lincoln's university education was at [[Somerville College]], [[Oxford]]. (Somerville at that time was a women's college, known in [[Oxford]] as "the [[bluestocking]] college".) There she read [[Greats]] (the Oxford term for traditional courses in the humanities, with emphasis on the ancient classics of Greece and Rome, including philosophy).
 
The drug smuggler [[Howard Marks]] was a student at [[Balliol College, Oxford]], while Frances Lincoln was at Somerville College. In his 1996 autobiography ''[[Mr. Nice (book)|Mr. Nice]]'', he describes her as "vivacious".<ref>{{cite book| title=[[Mr. Nice (book)|Mr. Nice]] | first=Howard | last=Marks | author-link=Howard Marks | publisher=[[Secker & Warburg]] | date=1996 | isbn=978-0-436-20305-73 }}</ref> The book contains an anecdote of Marks taking [[LSD]] for the first time before visiting Lincoln in her rooms. While they sat listening to [[The Rolling Stones]], Marks described to her the trip he was experiencing.
 
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