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a collection of essays that meditate on what it means to keep our humanity—and witness the humanity of others—in a time of darkness

The Fraud LimitedStock and refreshment stops and localIt is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper and cousin by marriage of a once famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr Charles Dickens, of being a bully and a