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"Have to pause here as it's due back at the library - someone's reserved it so I can't renew. I've got a couple of Audible credits so might switch to the audiobook..." Aug 26, 2022 10:46AM

 
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Gill Gill said: " Juliet Stevenson is a excellent narrator. It's a little dry at times and the events are presented fairly dispassionately.

I bought this title back in 2007 to tackle my (shameful) ignorance of our (shameful) imperial history, and I learnt a great deal
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Citizenship, rather than manhood, was beginning to be taken as the basis for the vote.8 But not too many women could be admitted to citizenship at once, or else � horrors! � they would outnumber men among the electorate.
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Oscar Wilde
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
Oscar Wilde

Jane Austen
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Charles Dickens
“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

Anthony Trollope
“To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.”
Anthony Trollope, The Eustace Diamonds

H.G. Wells
“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”
H.G. Wells

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