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  • The Contributors' Club
    December 1881 Issue
  • A Flight in the Dark
    S. K. and V. D. S.December 1888 Issue
  • Milton
    George A. GordonJanuary 1909 Issue
  • Dickens Our Contemporary

    In her new biography Jane Smiley argues that Dickens may have been "the first true celebrity"

    David LodgeMay 2002 Issue
  • Minor Elizabethan Poets
    July 1868 Issue
  • The Meaning of Music
    Richard Grant WhiteOctober 1878 Issue
  • New York Theatres
    March 1881 Issue
  • The Wives of Poets
    William M. RossettiJanuary 1881 Issue
  • The Mission of Humor
    Samuel McChord CrothersSeptember 1899 Issue
  • My Social Life in London
    Goldwin SmithNovember 1910 Issue
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