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Victorian novels to enjoy in lockdown

Adam Roberts chooses some slow-burning masterpieces by Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell and Walter Scott among others

Young Jeanie Deans visits her sister Effie in prison in Walter Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian. Getty Images.

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