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First published in 1943. This edition created from the 1973 printing by Collins Clear-Type Press, London.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Stevenson, D. E. (Dorothy Emily)

The two Mrs. Abbotts / D.E. Stevenson.

pages cm

“First published in 1943. This edition created from the 1973 printing by Collins Clear-Type Press, London.”

(pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Miss Buncle (Fictitious character)--Fiction. 2. Women authors, English--Fiction. 3. City and town life--England--Fiction. I. Title.

PR6037.T458T8 2014

823’.912--dc23

2013031051