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

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Edmund Spenser : The Faerie Queene

'Mr Rishton read "The Faerie Queene" to Frances Burney and her sisters, "in which he is extremely delicate, omitting whatever, to the poet's great disgrace, has crept in that is improper for a woman's ear".'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

 

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