‘From the enchanted garden to the steps of my father’s house’: the dissentient child in early twentieth-century British fiction.

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Gavin, A. 2012. ‘From the enchanted garden to the steps of my father’s house’: the dissentient child in early twentieth-century British fiction. in: Gavin, A. (ed.) The Child in British Literature: Literary Constructions of Childhood, Medieval to Contemporary Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 182-195

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Authors	Gavin, A.
Editors	Gavin, A.
Page range	182-195
Year	2012
Book title	The Child in British Literature: Literary Constructions of Childhood, Medieval to Contemporary
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Output status	Published
Place of publication	Basingstoke
ISBN	9780230348271
Deposited	21 Jun 2013

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