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A Soldier Writes Home: Letters from the Georgian Era through World War II
War is part of many historical novels, whether it is touched upon in conversation between those characters safe on the home front or dealt with directly via a character who has been in the military or is still serving abroad....
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“Be Not Alarmed, Madam, On Receiving This Letter…”
The reading and writing of letters plays an important role in many of our most beloved nineteenth century novels....
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Austen, Heyer, & the Prince of Orange: Pugs in Literature and History
Pugs feature in many of our favorite Regency novels and, in most of them, the cheerful little dog is not portrayed in a very flattering light. ...
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Mary Wollstonecraft and the Historical Romance Heroine
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman has been used as a sort of shorthand to convey that the heroine who reads it is an intelligent and independent female....
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Edwin Henry Landseer: 19th-Century Britain's Foremost Animal Painter
From the upper echelons of Victorian society to the working middle-class, there were few who were not familiar with Landseer’s work....
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Law Meets Literature: Bleak House and the British Court of Chancery
By the early nineteenth century, the British Court of Chancery had become synonymous with procedural dysfunction and injustice....
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