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This is a great work of fiction, with deep emotional, moral, intellectual and social content
As a literary study of that now-extinct creature, the Victorian spinster, it shines
This is a great work of fiction, with deep emotional, moral, intellectual and social content..
Mayor's achievement is to take the "superfluous female" of the Victorian census return, and transform her into a figure of luminous importance
Mayor's achievement is to take the 'superfluous female' of the Victorian census return, and transform her into a figure of luminous importance
As a literary study of that now-extinct creature, the Victorian spinster, it shines
