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Claire Tomalin

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Claire Tomalin

Claire Tomalin (née Delavenay) is an English journalist and biographer known for her biographies of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft.

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