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| Title | Facing the Footlights: A Novel, Volume 3 Volume 2135, Issue 6 of Collection of British Authors Facing the Footlights: A Novel, Florence Marryat Volume 3 of Facing the footlights, Florence Marryat |
| Author | Florence Marryat |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | F.V. White, 1883 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Jul 19, 2006 |
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