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        The Bostonians


        setting

        Boston, Massachusetts

        time

        Women's Rights Movement (1880s)

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1886

        page count

        496

        difficulty

        Difficult

        main characters

        Basil Ransom, Olive Chancellor, Verena Tarrant

        Rip's impressions

        Reserved for Guest Editor

        first line

        'Olive will come down in about ten minutes; she told me to tell you that. About ten; that is exactly like Olive. Neither five nor fifteen, and yet not ten exactly, but either nine or eleven.

        last lines

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