She experimented with attending Edgbaston High School for Girls but she preferred to be home educated by her mother.
She was not considered academic, unlike her sister, who went to attend Newnham College, Cambridge.
[2] She returned to Birmingham where she studied speech therapy and she volunteered to assist in prisons.
[3] By the outbreak of the Second World War she lived Harry in Cambridge, where he was a professor of classics.
[2] Sandbach was given an early commission by the Swedish Institute to translate future Nobel Laureate Eyvind Johnson's novel 1914 into English.