Monday, March 23, 2009
Daily Dose
From Queen Victoria, by Lytton Strachey
NOT AMUSED
"In literature her interests were more restricted. She was devoted to Lord Tennyson; and as the Prince Consort had admired George Eliot, she perused Middlemarch: she was disappointed."
From Chapter Nine, Old Age
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