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Main Author: Carole Koepke Brown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2012-01-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cve/12307
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