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ILLICIT INSCRIPTIONS: REFRAMING FORGERY IN ELIZABETH GASKELL'S RUTH

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2005

Sara A. Malton
Sara A. Malton
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Forgery is now considered an offence of the greatest magnitude;… In proportion, therefore, as a nation increases in wealth by buying and selling, it will magnify the criminality of a fraud by which buying and selling may be checked. The change of opinion will show itself in the penal laws, and in the not less deterrent force of social reprobation.

—Luke Owen Pike, History of Crime in England (1876)

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EDITORS' TOPIC: VICTORIAN TAXONOMIES
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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , March 2005 , pp. 187 - 202
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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