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Few areas of discussion on the world of the Victorians present us with greater difficulty than that which pertains to their attitudes to love and sexuality. So great have been the changes between those attitudes and our own that before we can assess the former with any confidence it is necessary for us to make considerable adjustments to our own prevailing assumptions.
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© 1988 Barbara Prentis
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Prentis, B. (1988). Love and Sexuality. In: The Brontë Sisters and George Eliot. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08502-6_5
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