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Peter Merchant teaches at Christ Church College, Canterbury, in England. He has previously written for CLE onLorna Doone (18/4), on heroism and sacrifice in Victorian literature for the young (20/1), and onPeter Wilkins (21/2). His research interests lie in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Merchant, P. Arnold's sea of faithlessness: Margaret, the merman, and the cry of the children. Child Lit Educ 22, 237–246 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01139478
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