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Elizabeth Segel, "As the Twig is Bent: Gender and Childhood Reading": "When Lucy Lyttelton's grandmother began reading aloud Adam Bede ... it was 'duly bowdlerized for our young minds,' Lucy reported in her diary. She was eighteen at the time."