With an IQ of 196, Dickson Wright was described as "exceptionally intelligent". Her father, an eminent surgeon to the royal family, but also violent and abusive at home, wanted her to pursue medicine, but she instead trained as a barrister at Gray's Inn. She was the youngest woman to be called to the BarAt 21, Dickson Wright became the youngest woman ever to be called to the Bar. Dickson Wright said she believed her parents were then "so delighted that they'd finally found a name, they got pissed on the way to the church". She pulled out Clarissa, the 1748 novel by Samuel Richardson. Her parents apparently had great trouble deciding on a first name, eventually blindfolding her mother, Molly, and "turning her loose in the library".
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