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“Too Much Knowledge of the Other World”: Women and Nineteenth-Century Irish Folktales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2004

Kathleen Vejvoda
Kathleen Vejvoda
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Bridgewater State College
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EDITORS' TOPIC: VICTORIAN IRELAND
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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , March 2004 , pp. 41 - 61
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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