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The History of Literature #195 – Thomas Hardy
http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL6803239613.mp3 He was born to a lower class family of tradesmen in 1840. Eighty eight years later, he died as one of the most celebrated writers in England. His name was Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), and he was at the same time the product of the Victorian era and one of its greatest critics. But how Continue reading
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The History of Literature #184 – George Eliot
http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL6223856341.mp3 Perhaps the greatest of all the many great English novelists, George Eliot was born Mary Ann Evans in 1819 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. Her father Robert managed an estate for a wealthy family; her mother Christina was the daughter of a local mill-owner. Among her rather large family, Mary Ann stood apart as the Continue reading
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