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Northanger Abbey
Virginia Woolf
Iris and her friends
Jane Austen's Letters
Dickens
Slide Rule
Greene on Capri
Anecdote Biographies of Thackeray and Dickens
The letters of Virginia Woolf
American notes
Walking in the Shade
George Eliot
Safe Passage
Jane Austen
Purgatory
My secret diary
The bookshops of London
An Autobiography
A very private eye
Food Standards Committee report on jams and other preserves
Barbara Cartland
The Heart of Charles Dickens
The journals and letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D'Arblay)
Katherine Mansfield
Giving Up the Ghost
Virginia Woolf
George Eliot
The invisible writing
The Elfish Gene
Virginia Woolf
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