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Florence Bell (and Mrs Herbert Richmond, née Elsa Bell) : The Cat and Fiddle Book: Eight dramatised nursery rhymes for nursery performers

'As for Mother I'm as usual lost in amazement at the amount she gets through without turning a hair. The "Cat and the Fiddle book" I thought a masterpiece — she would have been pleased to see me giggling over it. Fortunately just as I had decided that I was ill there came an excellent batch of books including "Vera" and "Mr Waddington of Wyck" — how clever both of them in their way!

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Print: Book

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