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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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East Lynne
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(1861) First novel by Mrs Henry Wood (1814–87), which became the basis of the most popular of all *melodramas on the Victorian stage. The plot concerns a disgraced mother, later disfigured beyond all recognition in a railway accident, who returns secretly home and is employed as governess to her own dying child – making possible the play's most famous line, 'dead, dead, dead! and he never knew me, never called me mother!'.
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