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AQA (A) Literature: ‘Victorian literature’
The New Magdalen (1873) and The Fallen Leaves (1879) are prime examples of Wilkie Collins’s later propaganda novels, which proved much less successful than the classic sensation fictions of his 1860s heyday. As the poet and critic Algernon Charles Swinburne noted in an article published soon after Collins’s death:
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