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

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H. T. Buckle

  

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H. T. Buckle : History of Civilisation

'Lillian Faithfull (b. c.1860) recalls her mother reading widely and thoroughly, making careful annotations, no day being considered satisfactory without its quota of what was known as "solid reading". Carpenter's "Mental Physiology", H. T. Buckle's "History of Civilisation", and John Seeley's "Ecce Homo" remained in Faithfull's memory as beng among the books with which they battled together ...'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lillian Faithfull and mother     Print: Book
  

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