sentences:  Sweet was born into a Methodist family in Brunswick, Victoria; her English father George Sweet was an amateur geologist and encouraged both his daughters to enter tertiary education.Sweet attended the Parkville Ladies' College, then went on to the University of Melbourne where she completed her BSc in 1896 and her MSc in 1898.Her early research was supervised by Baldwin Spencer and was on Australian fauna, but her later studies were based in the veterinary department working on parasites.