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In Orlando (1928), Virginia Woolf’s lively fantasy of the English literary sensibility transforming itself over four centuries, her hero, suddenly a woman, finds herself in the middle of Victorian England and demands to see its books.
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Stonyk, M. (1983). Introduction. In: Nineteenth~Century English Literature. Macmillan History of Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17267-2_1
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