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

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Charles Mackay (ed)

  

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Charles Mackay (ed) : A Thousand and One Gems of English Poetry

"[In Lark Rise to Candleford (1947)] Flora Thompson recollected young Willie, whose family were village carpenters, being fond of reading, including poetry: 'somehow he had got posession of an old shattered copy of an anthology called A Thousand and One Gems', which he read aloud with her, sitting under nut trees at the bottom of the garden, in the 1890s."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Willie anon      Print: Book
  

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