"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.

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"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.

George Eliot

Felix Holt, the Radical · 1866

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Foreign countries Expatriates Travel

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Time

1866

Person

George Eliot

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical, edited by Lynda Mugglestone. Penguin Classics, 1995, epilogue.

Original citation

Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1866, epilogue.

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