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

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Edna Bold and her cousin Dorothy : [medical book]

'When they were alone at home [Edna Bold] and her cousin Dorothy extracted from the kitchen bookcase and read side by side, a medical book and Foxe's Book of Martyrs. The intertextuality was profoundly scarring: "Childbirth and martyrdom were synonymmous. We suffered the torments of the damned...We never 'reproduced'."'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edna Bold and her cousin Dorothy     Print: Book

Edna Bold and her cousin Dorothy : Foxe's Book of Martyrs

'When they were alone at home [Edna Bold] and her cousin Dorothy extracted from the kitchen bookcase and read side by side, a medical book and Foxe's Book of Martyrs. The intertextuality was profoundly scarring: "Childbirth and martyrdom were synonymmous. We suffered the torments of the damned...We never 'reproduced'."'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edna Bold and her cousin Dorothy     Print: Book

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