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This month’s story, ‘How The Third Floor Knew The Potteries’ by Amelia Edwards, takes us to a very specific place – the potteries – and tells a tale that is very reliant on that setting. Along the way we get to know some details about what it would have been like working in a pottery in the nineteenth century. As always, you will get the most out of this masterclass if you read the story for yourself: ‘How The Third Floor Knew The Potteries’ by Amelia Edwards.
(In case anyone is wondering, the slightly unfathomable title is a result of the story originally being part of a linked collection put together by the author and others.)
Firstly, we have a lead-in to the story in which the narrator addresses a certain ‘Major’ and tells him that the story to be told is true and a plain ‘statement of facts’. This is a device
