Born in Melbourne of Swedish and Flemish ancestry , Clark was educated at Mont Albert Central School and the Presbyterian Ladies ' College in East Melbourne . Her father was Augustin Lodewyckx , the Associate Professor of Germanic languages at Melbourne University , and her mother – Anna Sophia ( '' née '' Hansen ) – also taught Swedish at Melbourne University . Clark finished Presbyterian Ladies College early ( aged 15 ) and spent time at school in Munich , with her mother , in 1933 . Returning to Melbourne , she studied languages to honours level at Melbourne University , where she met Manning Clark . In 1938 , she travelled to Bonn on a scholarship to undertake doctoral studies in German literature . She was there when Kristallnacht occurred , and left soon after with the increasing threat of war . She met Manning Clark in Oxford , marrying him there on 31 January 1939 , and they ultimately had six children . She taught at Blundell 's School in Devon in the first year of her marriage and they returned to Australia in 1940
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Dymphna Clark