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Stuart Hannabuss read and die research in English at Oxford, has taught in secondary schools, and has been a children's librarian. He is a lecturer at the School of Librarianship, Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology, Aberdeen.

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Hannabuss, S. The Henty phenomenon. Child Lit Educ 14, 80–93 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01127458

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