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Language: en
Pages: 560
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
A rich selection from diaries, letters, advice books, magazines, and paintings creates a rooms-by-room portrait of Victorian life--from childbirth in the master
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Pages: 441
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