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Invincible Louisa
Beloved
Lincoln
The Deception
Mothers and daughters
The Forty-nine Steps
James Madison
Memoirs of a Highland lady
Death in the dining room and other tales of Victorian culture
The general store
A life of Matthew Arnold
A hundred years of war
The Turn of the Screw
What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew
Acadian to Cajun
The Victorians and the visual imagination
The government of Victorian London, 1855-1889
The incredible War of 1812
Fantasy, the literature of subversion
European architecture 1750-1890
What Life Was Like in Europe's Romantic Era
The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi
Arthur Conan Doyle
Herman Melville's Malcolm letter
Cochrane
Endangered lives
From Sea to Shining Sea
State and society
Wealth and Disaster
Victorian prose
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