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A Past Most Queer: Remembering Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Radical Gay Historical Fiction

The Odd Women"> In Praise of the Literary and Social Subversions of George Gissing’s <em

The Odd Women">In Praise of the Literary and Social Subversions of George Gissing’s The Odd Women

The Forgotten Female Novelist Who Foresaw Ecology, Environmentalism, and Realist Fiction

The Lights Don’t Just Go Out: A Lifelong Fainter on How Fiction Gets Fainting All Wrong

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How the Victorians Created the Modern English Novel

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Revisiting the Brontës... Through Branwell's Reputed Affair

Victorians were obsessed with the rumor that George Eliot had two different-sized hands.

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Michael Moorcock on H.G. Wells, Reluctant Prophet

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