Really I suppose what I hate myself most on is showing other people where to dig, not having time to do intensive and exclusive digging myself. I am a dowser and not a navvy.
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Showing all quotesBirth: | 7th December, 1906 |
Death: | 17th March, 1981 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Critic, Essayist |
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Born in Edmonton, England, she wrote about the historical sociology of reading and the development of the English, the European, and the American novel. She paid particular attention to the writings of Jane Austen, George Eliot, Herman Melville, the Brontes, Edith Wharton and Charles Dickens.
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