“If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by”
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“If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by”
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“In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine of Aragon, and I could not put it down. When I finished it, I had to find out the true fa...”
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“At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all about Acts, Trade Unions and the factory system, and I wanted to kn...”
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