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I think the collection is called Lord Peter Views the Body and the stories have occasional Gothic elements, showing Sayers' unusual acknowledgement of the Gothic as one of the roots of detective stories - she read Braddon and Lefanu.
My thyroid doctor is happy, which scares me. Elizabeth McClung 2007
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Carslake, after her affair with Lefanu the American painter, frequented Indian philosophers, and now you find her in pensions in
Jacob's Room 2004
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Then Jinny Carslake, after her affair with Lefanu the American painter, frequented Indian philosophers, and now you find her in pensions in Italy cherishing a little jeweller's box containing ordinary pebbles picked off the road.
Jacob's Room Virginia Woolf 1911
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Lefanu had been ordained a Secular Priest before he had become a Regular
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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Père Lefanu was nearly ninety years of age, and had dwelt among these Barbarians for full sixty years of his Life, passing his time in Meditation, Prayer, and the Visitation of the Sick and Needy, both among the Unbelievers and the Christian Slaves, and at the same time transacting all necessary business with the Dey's Head-men for periodically redeeming those that were in Bondage.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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He was beginning to feel stifled in America and abruptly decided it would be a good idea to spend a few years in London, a move partly prompted by his love of British ghost story writers such as MR James, Sheridan Lefanu and Walter de la Mare.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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Literature from Petrie, and O'Donovan, and Ferguson, and Lefanu, and the _University Magazine_.
Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry Thomas Osborne Davis 1829
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The details of Mr. Sheridan's early life were obligingly communicated to me by his younger sister, Mr.. Lefanu, to whom, and to her highly gifted daughter, I offer my best thanks for the assistance which they have afforded me.
Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01 Thomas Moore 1815
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Lefanu family, '_Sine macula_,' and I am persuaded had you not too early been thrown upon the world, and alienated from your family, you would have been equally good as a private character.
Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 Thomas Moore 1815
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"Woman", and a "Syrian Tale", and Mr.. Lefanu, and Mr. Barrett, and
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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