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To characterise the literature of nigh on seven decades is a difficult task. What is here attempted is an overall consideration of some of the principal movements of thought and feeling as they are reflected in the writers of the time.
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Pollard, A. (1983). Introduction. In: The Victorian Period. Great Writers Student Library. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17060-9_1
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