Sue Anderson
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
Sue Anderson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And from seven until eleven in the summer.
When I was not particularly engaged I frequently attended him at other intervals.
At breakfast he had half an hour allotted to him.
At dinner a whole hour.
Every minute of this was filled up, for he generally read to me between every cup of tea and
And by this means I committed to memory a vast collection of pieces both in prose and verse which I still retain, and which have been until the present hour a never failing source of amusement to me.
The more I heard, the more my desire for knowledge increased, while I learned at the same time that the more a man knows, he finds he knows the less.
So ardent and steady was my desire for knowledge at that time that I could never bear to be absent a single night from my friend who
And often when working in the country where I could have been comfortably accommodated, I have travelled three or four miles in a severe winter's night to be at my post in time.
Pinched with cold and drenched with rain, I have many a time sat down and listened for several hours together to
to the writings of Plutarch, Rowland, or Clarendon.
For seven or eight years we continued this course of reading.
But to give a catalogue of the authors we perused in that time was
would be foreign to my present purpose.
Suffice it to say that every book in the English language which we could procure was read with avidity.
Ancient and modern history, poetry, biography, etc.
Essays, magazines, voyages, travels, etc were among our studies.
The persons to whom I had entrusted the management of my little domestic concerns were
did not hesitate to take advantage of my ignorance of such affairs as well as of my situation.
Many of my friends felt for me and advised me strongly to marry as I should be more comfortable and out of the power of these unprincipled people.
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