[3] Her father was in the Indian Army and her mother came from a family with generations of employment in the East India Company.
She read about the formation of the Women's Engineering Society, and went with her mother to meet the organisation's Secretary, Caroline Haslett, who alerted them about a technical course at Loughborough University.
[3] This included driving the American heiress Dolly Rodewald through Bosnian forests filled with howling wolves in a 1930 Ford A model in the middle of a huge snowstorm.
[8] In 1938 Parsons bought a Studebaker car in Delhi, nicknamed it Baker and drove with American anthropologist Kilton Stewart through Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine and Tunisia.
The Women's Engineering Society review of Brighter Bondage reads “so many of the adventures ring true that one is inclined to speculate as to which bits are purely imaginary.
[14] 2014 - Maggie Aderin-Pocock[15] 2015 - Kate Bellingham[16] 2016 - Helen Czerski[17] 2017 - Emily Grossman[18] 2018 - Jess Wade[19] 2019 - Suzanne Imber[20] Loughborough University has named a new hall of residence after Claudia Parsons, with the first intake of students in September 2019.