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The Ghost in the Garden Room

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From: The Catholic Historical Review
Date: 20070701
Author:Glancy, Ruth

The Ghost in the Garden Room. By Elizabeth Gaskell. Edited with an introduction and notes by Fran Baker. {Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Volume 86, Number 1 (Spring, 2004).] (Manchester: The John Rylands University Library of Manchester. 2005. Pp. cxxiv, 84. 2005.)

One of the most interesting and influential innovations in Victorian publishing was Charles Dickens's "Christmas numbers," carefuUy planned special editions of Dickens's weekly journals that appeared every Christmas from 1850 to 1867 and reached an audience of over quarter of a million eager readers. ...

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