 An inquisitive child, Anscombe decided to convert to Roman Catholicism in her early teens. She attended the Sydenham School, graduating in 1937, and went on to St. Hugh’s College, Oxford. During her early years at Oxford she met three young women who also had remarkable careers in philosophy: Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley, and, above all, Philippa Foot, with whom she developed a deep friendship her entire life (Mac Cumhaill &amp; Wiseman 2022). Anscombe received a First in Literae Humaniores (Classics and Philosophy) in 1941. After her graduation she remained at St. Hugh’s as a research student, and in 1942 moved to Newnham College, Cambridge, where she met Ludwig Wittgenstein. She believed that attending Wittgenstein’s lectures freed her from the trap of phenomenalism that had so plagued her (MPM, ix). In 1946 she was offered a Research Fellowship at Somerville College, Oxford, and was appointed to a teaching Fellowship there in 1964. She moved from Oxford to Cambridge in 1970 when she was awarded a Chair of Philosophy at Cambridge – the Chair formerly occupied by Wittgenstein. She remained at Cambridge until her retirement in 1986.