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Young Lady Aberdeen and mother : Mavor's spelling book

'Lady Aberdeen [a child in London in the late 1850s] ... learnt to read from the under-butler, sitting with him in the front hall ... But when the discovery of her new-found ability was made ...she was "furnished with a Mavor's spelling book" ... and made to start ... letter by letter, rather than by recognising words -- "under my mother's personal superintendence".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Young Lady Aberdeen and mother     Print: Book

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