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This reads as a plain defense of learning for its own sake. It points to the pleasure of return, routine, and fresh beginnings, and suggests that school can feel like renewal rather than duty. It lands for anyone who feels a lift at the start of term, when structure and curiosity come back together.
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Books by Claire Tomalin
Thomas Hardy
2007
Samuel Pepys
2002
Katherine Mansfield
1987
The life and death of Mary Wollstonecraft
1974
Invisible Woman
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