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| Title | The sisters of St. Gothard The sisters of St. Gothard, Elizabeth Cullen Brown |
| Author | Elizabeth Cullen Brown |
| Publisher | Printed at the Minerva Press for A.K. Newman and Company, 1819 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Jul 7, 2006 |
| Length | 468 pages |
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