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‘an utterly absorbing
biography….
devilishly good’
-Alexandra Harris in The Guardian‘this fascinating book does a brilliant job of revealing just how permissive Victorian society actually was’
-Daisy Goodwin in The Sunday Times‘rich and utterly engaging’
-Kate Williams in BBC History Magazine‘impossible to resist’
-Judith Flanders in The Sunday Telegraph‘I thoroughly recommend this sympathetic portrait of a fascinating woman’
-A.N. Wilson in The Oldie‘an imaginative and sympathetic biography….a demonstration of the richness and articulacy of late Victorian life’
Matthew Sweet in History Today***
Short stories from worlds that seem very close to our own, but in which something has shifted – just a notch, but enough to move them into a realm of unease…. Find out more
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