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Vernon Lee
Some German women and their salons
Triumph in exile
Race, gender, and desire
Early letters of Thomas Carlyle
Harriet Martineau
The Peabody sisters
The academic kitchen
Maverick autobiographies
Reshaping the sexes in Sense and sensibility
Sarah's choice, 1828-1832
The Age of Conversation
A woman, a man, and two kingdoms
Through random doors we wandered
Sunday Jews
Composing a further life
Edge of Taos Desert
John Marchmont's legacy
Inventing herself
Edith Wharton
Elizabeth Costello
Simone de Beauvoir
Dix années d'exil
Feminist engagements
Inventing Herself
Thomas and Jane Carlyle
Alice James, a biography
Lady Ottoline's album
All we know : three lives
As consciousness is harnessed to flesh
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