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Mr Micawber the Hermit Crab
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Mr Micawber the Hermit Crab

Posted on March 11, 2018by Rosalind White

Welcome poverty!..Welcome misery, welcome houselessness, welcome hunger, rags, tempest, and beggary! Mutual confidence will sustain us to the end! –…

How the Victorian Craze for Conchology became a Billion-dollar Business
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How the Victorian Craze for Conchology became a Billion-dollar Business

Posted on February 28, 2018by Rosalind White

Throughout the nineteenth-century the mania for seashells steadily swelled; they featured on Christmas cards, and adorned countless keepsakes, jewellery, and furniture….

This particular web: a week with George Eliot at Dickens Universe 2017
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This particular web: a week with George Eliot at Dickens Universe 2017

Posted on September 5, 2017by Rosalind White

I at least have so much to do in unravelling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and…

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