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1 For information about Empire Day as part of England’s culture of school recitation, see my Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem (Citation2012, 75).
2 I thank Christian Lehmann for sharing with me his researches on Cupid references in Dickens.
3 I am grateful to my NYU colleague, art-historian Meredith Martin, for suggesting that I turn my attention to Vaudreuil.
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Catherine Robson
Catherine Robson is a professor in the English Department at New York University and a long-time faculty member of the Dickens Project. She also co-edits, with Rachel Ablow, the Victorian Age section of the Norton Anthology of English Literature. She is author of Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman (2001) and Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem (Citation2012).