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

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Mary Ann Evans

 

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Walter Scott : 

Elizabeth Segel, in "'As the Twig is Bent ...': Gender and Childhood Reading," notes that Mary Ann Evans began reading Scott when aged seven.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ann Evans      Print: Book

  

Mary Finlay Cross : story

Catherine A. Judd, "Male Pseudonyms and Female Authority in Victorian England": "In 1877 [Mary Ann] Evans wrote to her future sister-in-law Mary Findlay Cross that 'I read your touching story aloud yesterday ...'"

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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ann Evans      

 

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