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

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W.G. Collingwood

  

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W.G. Collingwood : The Life of Ruskin

'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed conversion" stories (Christie's Old Organ, 'The Little Match Girl', A Peep behind the Scenes), as well as everything by Dickens,old volumes of Punch and the Spectator and The Life of Ruskin. "My undigested reading made me look at the world with mid-Victorian eyes", she recalled'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Hitchman      Print: Book
  

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