Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die... (Margaret Drabble)

Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die...

Margaret Drabble

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