Martyn Lyons, from an essay on “New Readers in the NIneteenth Century: Women, Children, Workers”:
By the 1890s, 90 per cent literacy had been almost uniformly reached [in the Western world], and…
More lighting of candles, less cursing the darkness
Martyn Lyons, from an essay on “New Readers in the NIneteenth Century: Women, Children, Workers”:
By the 1890s, 90 per cent literacy had been almost uniformly reached [in the Western world], and…
