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The opening of the Channel Tunnel has made it possible to travel between France and England with minimal discomfort and hardly any thought. Eurostar passengers are barely called upon to notice that the Channel is there. They descend into the earth on one side and emerge from it at the other, and the only water that they see comes in bottles, at an exorbitant price. It is like a prolonged ride on the Tube or the Metro, with better seats and fewer interruptions.
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Claire Tomalin, The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens (1990; rev. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991).
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Rainsford, D. (2002). All at Sea. In: Literature, Identity and the English Channel. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403919281_3
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