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Rosemary Ashton


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Literary Studies, Biography


Rosemary Ashton is Emeritus Quain Professor of English Language and Literature and an Honorary Fellow of UCL.

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Average rating: 4.17 · 7,207 ratings · 1,353 reviews · 36 distinct works • Similar authors
One Hot Summer: Dickens, Da...
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George Eliot: A Life
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142 Strand
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Thomas & Jane Carlyle: Port...
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Victorian Bloomsbury
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George Eliot
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The Mill on the Floss: A Na...
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G.H. Lewes: A Life
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The German Idea: Four Engli...
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“All the while we know that the true beginnings of an event lie half hidden in earlier movements, so that the visible starting point is in fact a culmination of forces which pre-dated its appearance.”
― Rosemary Ashton, One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858
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