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In the Victorian age , publicly at any rate , the law for man and for woman became the same law . If Victorian morality did not in truth square with the facts of life and the actual state of Victorian morals , it was certainly not for ...
In the Victorian age , publicly at any rate , the law for man and for woman became the same law . If Victorian morality did not in truth square with the facts of life and the actual state of Victorian morals , it was certainly not for ...
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... Bulwer - Lytton ( 1803-73 ) and Benjamin Disraeli ( 1804-81 ) , novelists who , however different in talent and achievement , have one thing in common : they seem in some strange way to stand apart from the Victorian age and ethos ...
... Bulwer - Lytton ( 1803-73 ) and Benjamin Disraeli ( 1804-81 ) , novelists who , however different in talent and achievement , have one thing in common : they seem in some strange way to stand apart from the Victorian age and ethos ...
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... 253-255 Nicholson , Norman , on H. G. poetic intensity in , 274-275 , 285 , Wells , 378 298-300 Nigger of the ' Narcissus , ' The , later Victorian novelists ' con370 sciousness of their function , Nightmare Abbey , 149-150 305-308 ...
... 253-255 Nicholson , Norman , on H. G. poetic intensity in , 274-275 , 285 , Wells , 378 298-300 Nigger of the ' Narcissus , ' The , later Victorian novelists ' con370 sciousness of their function , Nightmare Abbey , 149-150 305-308 ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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