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... close friend and confidante Elizabeth Cleg- horn Gaskell , herself a writer of distinction . Indeed , if you have room on your shelf for an extra book or two , I highly recommend not only The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Mrs. Gaskell but ...
... close friend and confidante Elizabeth Cleg- horn Gaskell , herself a writer of distinction . Indeed , if you have room on your shelf for an extra book or two , I highly recommend not only The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Mrs. Gaskell but ...
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... for those of us who love verse , there are other great poets whose collected works have been neatly packaged in one volume for readers who are restricted to close quarters . But novelists are difficult to IN WHICH THE LADIES COME FIRST 67.
... for those of us who love verse , there are other great poets whose collected works have been neatly packaged in one volume for readers who are restricted to close quarters . But novelists are difficult to IN WHICH THE LADIES COME FIRST 67.
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... close friends of Carlyle were Leigh Hunt , Sir Walter Scott , William Wordsworth , and Samuel Tay- lor Coleridge . Recognition of his scholarship was em- phasized when , in 1865 , close to his seventieth birthday , he was named rector ...
... close friends of Carlyle were Leigh Hunt , Sir Walter Scott , William Wordsworth , and Samuel Tay- lor Coleridge . Recognition of his scholarship was em- phasized when , in 1865 , close to his seventieth birthday , he was named rector ...
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