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Eighteenth-century natural historians created a peculiar, and peculiarly durable, vision of nature--one that embodied the sexual and racial tensions of that era

Charlotte inexplicably finished with Felix on her last day at Lady Margaret's College, Oxford. They had been inseparable for their last two years, and even now,

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