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No wonder it ached

Dinah Birch

  • The Journals of George Eliot edited by Margaret Harris and Judith Johnston
  • George Eliot: The Last Victorian by Kathryn Hughes

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Dinah Birch’s new book, Our Victorian Education, will be published later this year.

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