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Unread 04-05-2017, 03:21 AM
John Isbell John Isbell is offline
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Among my favorite novels is The Young Visiters by Daisy Ashford, who wrote it when she was nine. I do also like George Eliot, perhaps especially The Mill on the Floss, though Middlemarch is very fine. At school years ago, a friend walked in while folks were discussing Eliot and said "George Eliot? I've never heard of her." It was one of the De Waals.
Lovely Philip Sidney poem.

Cheers,
John

PS (I guess). Ashford's opening sentence is fairly typical: "Mr Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay with him." The preface (in my edition) is by JM Barrie.

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