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Chapter 13: Norman

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It was not to be expected that this state of tension and of preparation should be protracted for ever. Residence at Clifton from the autumn of 1868 onwards determined a new phase of feeling.In December 1868 my friend Graham Dakyns, a schoolmaster at Clifton College, invited me to dinner. Several members of the Sixth Form made up the party with ourselves; and among these was a boy who attracted me by his good looks, agreeable manners and excellent sense in conversation.

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Regis, A.K. (2016). Chapter 13: Norman. In: Regis, A. (eds) The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds. Genders and Sexualities in History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-29124-0_15

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