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

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Sir Henry Cole : The Home Treasury - Felix Summerly's Fairy Tale Book

From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's 'Memoir for Laura': 'One of the nicest things that ever happened to us when we were children at Paris was the arrival of a huge parcel, which my Grannie cut open and inside there were piles and piles of the most beautiful delightful wonderful fairy tale books all painted with pictures ? I thought they would never come to an end but alas! in a week we had read them all. They were called the Felix Summerly series'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Marian (Minny) Thackeray      Print: Book

Sir Henry Cole : The Home Treasury - Felix Summerly's Fairy Tale Book

From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's 'Memoir for Laura': 'One of the nicest things that ever happened to us when we were children at Paris was the arrival of a huge parcel, which my Grannie cut open and inside there were piles and piles of the most beautiful delightful wonderful fairy tale books all painted with pictures ? I thought they would never come to an end but alas! in a week we had read them all. They were called the Felix Summerly series'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Thackeray      Print: Book

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