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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20041016
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Byline: Chris Upton

The year 1889 was not a great year for English literature. Gerard Manly Hopkins went to his grave, as did Robert Browning and Wilkie Collins.

Even those writers who did manage to keep their heads above the daisies were not in vintage form. Lewis Carroll, William Morris and Tennyson were past their best, and GBS was only publishing essays on Socialism.

But hold on, let's not dismiss the cultural offerings of 1889 quite so readily. At the popular end of the market there was more than a flicker of life.

Mark Twain introduced us to his ...

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