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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Friends, Associates
Geraldine Jewsbury
She and her
brother
entertained such visitors as
George Henry Lewes
, dramatist
Westland Marston
, Italian exile and journalist
Antonio Gallenga
, manufacturer
William Edward Forster
, mechanical engineer
Joseph Whitworth
, poet and...
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Geraldine Jewsbury
The novel begins with two orphans, John and Alice Withers, who spend their childhood in a workhouse. John grows up to work in the
Lancashire
cotton mills and takes an interest in factory machinery and...
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