Living History: Louisa Young
My defining moment at Trinity
My great grandfather and my grandfather and my father were all at Trinity. My brother said I couldn’t go there because they didn’t want girls. My boyfriend dumped me two weeks before the entrance exam. But I arrived in 1978, convinced they’d changed the rules just for me, in my pink trousers, unpacking my guitar and my plastic aspidistra in New Court, where my parents had met in 1946.
And then in September 2012 I helped my daughter Isabel Adomakoh Young to lug her stuff through Whewell’s. Her father and his father had both been at Downing. So she’s fifth generation on one side, third on the other. And mother to daughter.
©Habie Schwarz
About
Louisa Young matriculated in 1978 and studied History. She is a writer and songwriter. Her eleven novels include the award-winning ‘My Dear I Wanted to Tell You’ trilogy. She’s half of the children’s author Zizou Corder (with her daughter Isabel Adomakoh Young), and half of the band Birds of Britain (with Alex Mackenzie).