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

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Kathleen Woodward

 

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Thomas Babington Macaulay : History of England

'Working class readers continued to enjoy Macaulay's drama and accessibility long after professional historians had declared him obsolete. Kathleen Woodward read Gibbon's Decline and Fall and Macaulay's History of England twice through over factory work, with such absorption she once injured a finger, leaving "an honourable scar".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Kathleen Woodward      Print: Book

  

Edward Gibbon : The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

'Working class readers continued to enjoy Macaulay's drama and accessibility long after professional historians had declared him obsolete. Kathleen Woodward read Gibbon's Decline and Fall and Macaulay's History of England twice through over factory work, with such absorption she once injured a finger, leaving "an honourable scar".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Kathleen Woodward      Print: Book

 

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