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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 want of zeal and will ...
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 want of zeal and will ...
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... have one thing in common : they seem in some strange way to stand apart from
the Victorian age and ethos , and this though Lytton played a distinguished part
in its public life and Disraeli was one of its two loftiest political figures . Marryat ...
... have one thing in common : they seem in some strange way to stand apart from
the Victorian age and ethos , and this though Lytton played a distinguished part
in its public life and Disraeli was one of its two loftiest political figures . Marryat ...
Page 449
... later Victorian novelists ' con370 sciousness of their function , Nightmare
Abbey , 149 - 150 305 - 308 No More Parades , 397 and new reading public after
No Name , 252 Education Acts of 1870 , 307Nocturne , 357 311 North and South
...
... later Victorian novelists ' con370 sciousness of their function , Nightmare
Abbey , 149 - 150 305 - 308 No More Parades , 397 and new reading public after
No Name , 252 Education Acts of 1870 , 307Nocturne , 357 311 North and South
...
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History A Dutton paperback Part 9 of Dutton everyman paperback |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1955 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 May 2007 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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