“Each woman's story, Edith's especially but Rose's too, is a kind of English story told over and over in fiction and film but rarely in works of history; the tragicomedy of someone who could not perform the ordinariness expected of them.”
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The Littlehampton Libels: A Miscarriage of Justice and a Mystery about Words in 1920s England
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