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ariadnes_string) wrote2011-10-03 04:03 pm
ariadnes_string) wrote2011-10-03 04:03 pm
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today's drive-by quote is something I think I need to put in a fic sometime
Re: the therapeutic value of reading Jane Austen:
"H.F. Brett Smith, an Oxford tutor, served in World War I as an adviser in British Hospitals. His special responsibility was the prescription of salubrious reading for the wounded, and he recommended Austen's novels to "severely shell-shocked" veterans."
(I can see this happening at Downton Abbey--perhaps not with the desired results)
"H.F. Brett Smith, an Oxford tutor, served in World War I as an adviser in British Hospitals. His special responsibility was the prescription of salubrious reading for the wounded, and he recommended Austen's novels to "severely shell-shocked" veterans."
(I can see this happening at Downton Abbey--perhaps not with the desired results)