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" Tipping the velvet / "
Sarah Waters.
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BL
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Record Number
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1031926
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Doc. No
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b786296
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Main Entry
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Waters, Sarah,1966-
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Title & Author
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Tipping the velvet /\ Sarah Waters.
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Publication Statement
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New York :: Riverhead Books,, [1999]
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, ©1998
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Page. NO
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472 pages ;; 23 cm
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ISBN
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1573221368
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: 1573227889
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: 9781573221368
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: 9781573227889
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Abstract
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The story of a "girl-in-trousers" in 1890s England. She is a lesbian fishmonger who gains entry into the libertine world of music halls by an affair with a singer, becoming her partner in a cross-dressing show. But drama follows when the other goes straight.
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Subject
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Lesbians-- England, Fiction.
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Lesbians.
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Manners and customs.
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Picaresque literature.
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England, Social life and customs, 19th century, Fiction.
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England, Social life and customs, 19th century, Fiction.
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Subject
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England.
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Dewey Classification
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823/.914
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LC Classification
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PR6073.A828T56 1999
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NLM classification
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WAT
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