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181 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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were composed . " From this diary and these letters we shall make such extracts as
our space allows , selecting those which are most characteristic of the writer and her friends .
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married because she would not ive man a legal gover ; nor never at the would hotel she have any but of women housebreaker In g her s house any having ( boarding broken her into men her - house servants at
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181 Notices Of Books.
181 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 131, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/59/
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