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Letter: Lost in literature
How I empathised with the letter from Mr T Crawford about his memories of battling with Dickens in his schooldays!
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My introduction to English literature (at Lawnswood High School in 1960) was having to read Silas Marner by George Eliot. I didn’t understand a word of it! But funnily enough as soon as I left school I used to rush to the library every week and by the age of 20 I had read numerous classics including all the other books by George Eliot – but I never attempted Silas Marner again! My friend and I often used to say maybe we should go to work from the age of 11 to 18 and then go to school for seven years as we would be so much more interested in lessons when we were older!
Carol Lee, Cookridge
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