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Deerbrook (1839) (edit title/settings)

by Harriet Martineau (Author) (edit contributors)

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Told with humor and compassion, Deerbrook prefigures the later Victorian novels of Elizabeth Gaskell, the Brontës, and George Eliot. When the Ibbotson sisters, Hester and Margaret, arrive at the village of Deerbrook to stay with their cousin Mr. Grey and his wife, speculation is rife ... read more

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Every town-bred person who travels in a rich country region, knows what it is to see a neat white house planted in a pretty situation, - in a shrubbery, or commanding a sunny common, or nestling between two hills, - and to say to himself, as the carriage sweeps past its gate, 'I should like to live there,' - 'I could be very happy in that pretty place.

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  1. Harriet Martineau (Author)

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Original Language: English
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Country: UK
Publication Date: 1839
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Page Count: 618

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  1. 1830s, 
  2. british, 
  3. fiction, 
  4. novel, 
  5. obscure, 
  6. victorian 

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