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

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Hans Christian Andersen

  

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Hans Christian Andersen : Little Match Girl, The

'She did take to reading me The Little Matchgirl rather more frequently as time went on. Maybe she hoped that I would learn to read as a means of avoiding that particular story, but I have a nasty suspicion that it was done as a means of providing light relief for herself, because The Little Match Girl always made me cry.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosemary Sutcliff      Print: Book
  

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