[3] From there she went on to study for a second degree in Literae Humaniores (Classics) at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, graduating in 1962 with a double first.
[2] From 1962 to 1963 Gardner taught Greek and Roman History at University College, Cardiff (now Cardiff University), followed by two years teaching Classics and English at Forest Fields Grammar School in Nottingham; she also taught Classics at Kendrick Girls School in Reading.
In that time she held a Leverhulme Trust Research fellowship (1995–96) and was also curator of the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology (1976–92).
[2] Reviewers praised these books for presenting often difficult and complicated legal material in readable and accessible ways.
[11] According to an obituary, these two Penguin translations, along with other publications such as Roman Myths (part of the British Museum's Legendary Past series, 1993), represent Gardner's "great commitment to the dissemination of Classical scholarship beyond the confines of academia and the field in a narrow sense", as did her role as a volunteer lecturer in Greek and Classics at the Working Men's College in Camden from 1979 to 1981.