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Michael Levenson is a professor of English at the University of Virginia.
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Together, two books about E.M. Forster capture his writing life and his sex life.
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Mark Bostridge’s Florence Nightingale.
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Katie Roiphe’s Uncommon Arrangements.
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Ben Wilson’s The Making of Victorian Values.
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