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"text": "On Anger's self-awareness of the originality of writing as a railing woman, see McManus, \"Eve's Dowry,\" p. 198.",
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"text": "Such was the case of the 'very railing speeches against the justices' by Thomas Holman, vintner, of Terling, Essex, when he was presented in 1608 'for a common drunkard and for keeping ill rule in his house'.",
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"text": "I return to earlier considerations of railing by looking at the ways in which the railing style of the Poets' War yields a significant, perverse, even queer fin de siècle aesthetics that is expressed in part by extreme articulations of masculinity: metaphors and puns represent men as either hyperagressive or effeminate.",
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"ref": "2015, Rosanne Croft, Linda Reinhardt, Sharon Bernash Smith, Once Upon a Christmas:",
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