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Micawber, Mrs Wilkins sen. (Emma): "I have known her to be thrown into fainting fits by the king's taxes at 3 o'clock and to eat lamb chops, breaded, and drink warm ale (paid for with two teaspoons that had gone to the pawnbrokers) at four" (Copperfield).
The Charles Dickens Encyclopedia, compiled by Michael and Mollie Hardwick: characters, plots and personalities from the real and fictional worlds of Charles Dickens.

Europe - the radical challenge by Hugh Thomas: a historian looks at the promise held out by entry into Europe.

Not in God's Image, edited by Julia O'Faolain and Lauro Martines: the lives of women at every level of society throughout European history; and other new books

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