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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19970518
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Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters: The Rows and Romances of England's Great Victorian Novelists, by Daniel Pool (HarperCollins, $25). In the popular imagination, these writers were a sober lot - frowning, bewhiskered gents in frock coats; prim lace-collared ladies in black dresses.

Not so, says Pool. An example: When Charlotte Bronte, writing pseudonymously as "Currer Bell," dedicated the second edition of the scandalous Jane Eyre to William Makepeace Thackeray, rumors swirled that Bronte was Thackeray's mistress. Well, the subtitle was An Autobiography; the plot about a ...

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