Where has Elizabeth Gaskell been all my life!
Sometimes I get in this mood where I'm like, "I've ready so many 19th century British novels (something like 65 in the last 7 years), and I really think I've mined out that vein." And that is when, inevitably, I run across another book that shows me something totally new! I mean I suppose it shouldn't be very surprising: this is an entire century of lit…
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