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

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H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler

  

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H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler : The King's English

Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 September 1918: 'V[irginia]. induced me to buy The King's English, a book which teaches you exactly how not to write. The difficulty is that that is precisely what it does do, and now I cannot write a sentence, because as soon as I get one down, I see that it is exactly like some horror of Miss [Marie] Corelli [popular novelist]'s quoted as a warning in that damned book.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book
  

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