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

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John Philip Kemble

 

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'With the accomplished and honourable family of the Kembles [Elizabeth Inchbald] was long on terms of close intimacy. While her husband painted, she and John Philip Kemble read. On Sundays, if they were not near a Catholic chapel, it was she or her husband who read Mass to their visitor [Philip Kemble], who listened with due humility.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: John Philip Kemble      Print: Unknown

 

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