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Gwen John
Sir Paul Harvey
Oxford Companions
Dinah Birch
serial
Margaret Drabble
Walter Scott
Dorothy S. Eagle
Margaret Drabble
Dinah Birch
"The Oxford Companion to English Literature ed by Dinah Birch: review"
"A Narrative of Jealousy and Bafflement and Resentment"
ISSN
1091-2339
"Oxford Reference - Answers with Authority"
The Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Margaret Drabble
A Summer Bird-Cage
The Garrick Year
The Millstone
Jerusalem the Golden
The Waterfall
The Needle's Eye
The Realms of Gold
The Ice Age
The Middle Ground

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