Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could.
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It has been done with such care that I don't think anyone will be disappointed. Davies has highlighted certain themes in the book but if Dickens had been writing in a different period he would have done the same. The ideas Andrew explores are in the minds of the characters. After all's said and done, people are no different now than they were then. The same passions and urges are still around.
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