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  2. Thomas(ine) Hall - Wikipedia

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    In a departure from similar European cases, [1] the court ruled that Hall had a "dual nature" sex, or what modern society classifies as intersex: "hee is a man and a woeman". Before Hall's time, any individual determined by court to be "man and woman" was forced to adopt either a permanent male or female identity, based on their predominant ...

  3. The Years (Woolf novel) - Wikipedia

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    Fourth Essay Describes the centuries-long tradition of all-male education at Oxford and its influence on Edward's sexual life, contrasted with the limited education available to women. Here Ashley/Jevons is called "Tony Ashton," and once in the following chapter Tony Ashton is called "Tony Ashley," suggesting that these various names originally ...

  4. List of A Series of Unfortunate Events characters - Wikipedia

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    Unlike the books, the Person survives the events of "The Hostile Hospital". In "The Slippery Slope" Pt. 2, the Person of Indeterminate Gender, the Bald Man, and the White-Faced Women become disillusioned with Count Olaf and take their leave of him after he demands that they do away with Sunny. They quote that they need some space.

  5. The Landlady (novella) - Wikipedia

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    The Landlady (Russian: Хозяйка, romanized: Khozayka) is a novella by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, written and published in 1847.Set in Saint Petersburg, it tells of an abstracted young man, Vasily Mikhailovich Ordynov, and his obsessive love for Katerina, the wife of a dismal husband whom Ordynov perceives as a malignant fortune-teller or mystic.

  6. Brown Girl, Brownstones - Wikipedia

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    Ten-year-old Selina Boyce lives in a brownstone in Brooklyn with her Barbadian immigrant family: her mother Silla, father Deighton, and sister Ina. Silla is a strict, no-nonsense woman whose goal is to save enough money to purchase the brownstone they are leasing. Deighton is lackadaisical, impulsive, and he frequently cheats on his wife.

  7. The Last Leaf - Wikipedia

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    The ill woman's health quickly recovers. At the story's end, we learn that the old artist, who always wanted to produce a masterpiece painting but had never had any success, spent considerable time painting with great realism a leaf on the wall for the whole night.

  8. Watch this 7 year old ‘steal’ her neighbor’s husky and ...

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    Olivia Myers, 7, was caught committing a crime of the heart: temporarily dognapping her neighbor's pooch. Amanda Sullivan of Glouchester, Massachusetts, caught the entire act on her outdoor camera ...

  9. A Great and Terrible Beauty - Wikipedia

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    It is told from the perspective of Gemma Doyle, a girl in the year 1895. Gemma leaves her home in India to go to a boarding school in England after her mother dies. Once there, she is plagued by clairvoyant visions as she looks into the magical secrets of the school with her three friends Felicity Worthington, Pippa Cross, and Ann Bradshaw.