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Nell Steven’s The Victorian and the Romantic is a hybrid of a memoir of the author’s life as she pursues a Ph.D. on Elizabeth Gaskell and tries to navigate a transatlantic relationship. Gaskall was friends with Hosmer in Rome, and Hosmer appears frequently in the book.