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

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Mary Stocks and siblings : poems including The Revenge

"Mary Stocks (b. 1891) recorded how her Aunt Tiddy made great efforts to preserve her and her siblings from 'indelicacy' [quotes from Stocks's account of how one of the poems read aloud by aunt included Tennyson, 'The Revenge', in her text of which the aunt covered the word 'womb' with a strip of paper]: 'My family still cherishes the tattered volume of Tennyson showing the marks from which the strip was surreptitiously removed by us to satify a curiosity very natural in the young.'"

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Stocks and siblings     Print: Book

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