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Mrs Layton

 

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 : popular serial fiction

" ... [Mrs Layton (b. 1855)] remembers, when she was in service, and about sixteen, being lent some 'trashy books' by the servant next door: narratives which came out in weeekly episodes and which created a compulsive desire in her ..."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Layton      Print: Serial / periodical

  

 : travel writing

In one place in which she worked as a servant, where "Mrs Layton's" reading approved of: "she became particularly keen on reading travel literature ..."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Layton      Print: Unknown

 

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