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Title page to the 1850 joint publication of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, by Ellis and Acton Bell. A New Edition Revised, with a Biographical Notice of the Authors, a Selection from their Literary Remains, and a Preface, by Currer Bell.

"The scene is fairly certainly identifiable as Maidenhead railway bridge, across the Thames between Taplow and Maidenhead. The bridge, which was begun on Brunel's design in 1837 and finished in 1839, has two main arches of brick, very wide and flat.…

Cover page to William Makepeace Thackeray's serialized novel, Vanity Fair, published as a whole in 1848.

A review of Dombey and Son by John Forster in the Literary Examiner, 28 Oct. 1848.

Chapters 14-16: Chapter 14. Paul grows more and more old-fashioned, and goes home for the holidays -- Chapter 15. Amazing artfulness of Captain Cuttle, and a new pursuit for Walter Gay -- Chapter 16. What the waves were always saying