CHAPTER I.
Hillsborough and its outlying suburbs make bricks
by the million, spin and weave both wool and cotton,
forge in steel from the finest needle up to a ship’s
armor, and so add considera...
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By the time Charles Reade had reached the age of forty, he had written only two of his fourteen novels, Peg Woffington (1853) and Christie Johnstone (1853); but he had already written at least fifteen...
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