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Salem Chapel – Mrs Oliphant (1863)

This, like Rachel Ray, was picked up for my essay. I’d never read anything by Mrs O before, though her name was very familiar. She, after all, wrote something like 100 books during her life, and was one of the raft of Victorian women who were able to make their living by writing alone. She [...]

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December 22, 2008 in book thoughts, fiction, victorian literature
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