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Harriet Shaw Weaver
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George Eliot : Adam Bede
' ... as late as the 1890s, Harriet Shaw Weaver's mother was shocked when she came upon her adolescent daughter reading "Adam Bede" ... the local vicar was asked to call in order to explain the book's unsuitability.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Shaw Weaver Print: Book
Walt Whitman : Leaves of Grass
"Harriet Shaw Weaver, as an adolescent, found Leaves of Grass 'a liberating influence and could even read it on Sundays as it wasn't a novel!'"
