Goodall had no academic training, having grown up in the middle-class gentility of Bournemouth in the postwar years, a time when women were expected to be wives and little else.

古德没有受过任何学术培训，她成长于战后伯恩茅斯有教养的中产家庭，那时人们认为女子无才是德，只希望妇女成为主妇。