Vocation and Desire: George Eliot's Heroines
- ISBN-10
- 0415009790
- ISBN-13
- 9780415009799
- Category
- Feminism and literature
- Pages
- 207
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Dorothea Barrett
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