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By Emily Flynn - September 22, 2000

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It is only as an historian that he [the author] has the smallest locus standi. As a narrator of fictitious events, he is nowhere. --Henry James

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready to be institutionalized. --May West

One of George Eliot's challenges in Middlemarch is to depict a sexually desirous woman, Dorothea, within the confines of…

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