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The Natural History of the Ballet-girl


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Fictional work detailing the social opportunities available to young, single girls in mid-19th century London. The ballet girl was a single girl in the city with few resources other than her charm and beauty. Often the theatrical world of a dance offered the promise of upward mobility through the opportunity of meeting a wealthy man










The Afterlives of Walter Scott


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Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), once an immensely popular writer, is now largely forgotten. This book explores how works like Waverley, Ivanhoe, and Rob Roy percolated into all aspects of cultural and social life in the nineteenth century, and how his work continues to resonate into the present day even if Scott is no longer widely read.