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The history of the Yellow Book – the 19th century journal that celebrated women writers

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par Jad Adams, Research Fellow, University of London

In the middle of the final decade of the 19th century, Britain was the most powerful and richest nation on earth, with the largest empire ever known. The nation might be thought to have had nothing of which to be frightened, yet frightened it was.

Many Britons of the time were steeped in an education in Latin and Greek in the classical tradition, so they knew what happened to great empires: they…

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