[1][2] She was educated at the St Paul's Girls' School, London, and graduated from Girton College, Cambridge.
[4] Freeman's investigations into the English Emblem books led to her eponymous publication in 1948, which won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 1951.
[5] Noting in the above book that the striking visual imagery in Edmund Spenser's poetry was a mirror of Renaissance emblems,[6] Freeman conducted a years-long research into his oeuvre.
Two books resulted: a short life and times of the poet in the British Council's "Writers and Their Work" series (1962), then The Faerie Queen: A Companion for Readers (1970).
The latter book received mixed reviews: her judgments were considered sensible and balanced yet her interpretations were thought comparatively unperceptive.