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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Christine Botting

  

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Christine Botting : [diary]

'Down here with my mother I feel that nothing can be so preposterous, so undignified as "love". I have been reading her ludicrous, pathetic, nauseating diary about herself and Oswald Norton. "Cleopatra had a famous wriggle last night. Julia ull-ully". The sexual act is not indecent but almost any verbal description of it is. Interspersed with all this are prayers, recriminations, schoolgirl ravings, a kind of complacent self reproach.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Manuscript: Unknown
  

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