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| Title | Bessie, Volume 3 Bessie, Julia Kavanagh Collection of British authors |
| Author | Julia Kavanagh |
| Publisher | Tauchnitz, 1872 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Jul 7, 2006 |
| Length | 312 pages |
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