This article is taken from PN Review 13, Volume 6 Number 5, May - June 1980.

Ruth Pitter

No one knows his native language who does not know it in some historical depth. To be ignorant of the Authorised Version and the Book of Common Prayer is for any English-speaking person to be disinherited, cheated, and in a sense orphaned.
-RUTH PITTER
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