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Product Description: 'She had resolved to trust in everything, and, having so trusted, she would not provide for herself any possibility of retreat.'Lively and attractive, Lily Dale lives with her mother and sister at the Small House at Allington. She falls passionately in love with the suave Adolphus Crosbie, and is devastated when he abandons her for the aristocratic Lady Alexandrina de Courcy...read more
By Dinah Birch (editor)

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9780199662777 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 2014), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: 'She had resolved to trust in everything, and, having so trusted, she would not provide for herself any possibility of retreat.
9780345351661, titled "Psychic Sex" | Ballantine Books, December 1, 1999, cover price $4.99 | also contains Psychic Sex

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Product Description: In the first of his six Palliser novels, Trollope deftly explores the tensions in Victorian society between reform and tradition, and the interplay between money, power, and politics. Dinah Birch's lively introduction discusses the relationships at the heart of the novel and shows how issues of gender, social and economic change, and politics clarify the novel's place in contemporary life...read more
By Dinah Birch (editor)

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9780199578177 | Reissue edition (Oxford Univ Pr, May 1, 2012), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In the first of his six Palliser novels, Trollope deftly explores the tensions in Victorian society between reform and tradition, and the interplay between money, power, and politics.

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By Dinah Birch (introduced by)

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9780199558308 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 2011), cover price $11.95

By Dinah Birch (introduced by)

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9780199536764 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 15, 2008, cover price $9.95

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Product Description: This groundbreaking book combines a historical interpretation of Victorian educational debate with a critical overview of contemporary educational thought. Traces the roots of contemporary educational practice in the values of Victorian thinking Combines detailed consideration of Victorian sources, literary and non-literary, with reflections on their legacy in the 21st century Reflects on questions of social class, religion, and gender as the Victorians defined them in relation to educational ideals Suggests challenging connections between literary and social history and contemporary dilemmas...read more

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9781405145053 | Blackwell Pub, December 10, 2007, cover price $115.95 | About this edition: This groundbreaking book combines a historical interpretation of Victorian educational debate with a critical overview of contemporary educational thought.

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9781405145060 | Blackwell Pub, December 10, 2007, cover price $48.95 | About this edition: This groundbreaking book combines a historical interpretation of Victorian educational debate with a critical overview of contemporary educational thought.

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Product Description: For many years Ruskin has seemed, at best, a conservative thinker on gender roles. At worst, his lecture On Queens' Gardens from Sesame and Lilies was read as a locus classicus of Victorian patriarchal oppression. These essays challenge such assumptions, presenting a wide-ranging revaluation of Ruskin's place in relation to gender, and offering new perspectives on continuing debates on issues of gender - in the Victorian period, and in our own...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Dinah Birch (editor) and Francis O'Gorman (editor)

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9780333968970 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 1, 2002, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: For many years Ruskin has seemed, at best, a conservative thinker on gender roles.

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Product Description: This interdisciplinary collection of original essays reconsiders John Ruskin's legacy, suggesting that the vigour and vitality of his late work played an important role in shaping the twentieth-century mind. The contributors have focused on such diverse areas as Ruskin's thinking on music, his impact on social reform policies and the British Labour movement, his influence on scientific and artistic education, the complexities of his relationship with aestheticism, and on his writing in Fors Clavigera...read more
By Dinah Birch (editor)

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9780198184546 | Clarendon Pr, May 27, 1999, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: This interdisciplinary collection of original essays reconsiders John Ruskin's legacy, suggesting that the vigour and vitality of his late work played an important role in shaping the twentieth-century mind.

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Product Description: This illustrated history of the garden from earliest times to the 20th century considers the garden as a major form of artistic expression. Drawing on 170 of the world's most beautiful gardens the author - an internationally recognised authority - combines a fascinating history of development and changing fashion in garden design with an account of the cultures and civilizations which give rise to them...read more
By Dinah Birch (editor)

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9780821218082 | Bulfinch Pr, September 1, 1990, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: This illustrated history of the garden from earliest times to the 20th century considers the garden as a major form of artistic expression.

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Product Description: This original and accessible study of John Ruskin's writings traces the evolution of his understanding and use of mythology. Though he evinced a Christian distrust of mythology in his early work, Ruskin came to revere and use it, finding in its multiple significance ways of articulating both private obsession and public debate...read more

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9780198128724 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 8, 1988, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: This original and accessible study of John Ruskin's writings traces the evolution of his understanding and use of mythology.

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