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| Author | Francis Brett Young |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Drama |
| Publisher | Heinemann |
Publication date | 1931 |
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Mr. and Mrs. Pennington is a 1931 novel by the British writer Francis Brett Young. [1] It portrays the courtship and first year of marriage a couple, and as with many of Young's Mercian novels takes place in North Bromwich and other settings.
Francis Brett Young was an English novelist, poet, playwright, composer, doctor and soldier.
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The Key of Life is a 1928 novel by the British writer Francis Brett Young. It was part of a group of cultural works that acknowledged a new Egyptomania in the wake of the discovery of Tutankhamun tomb by Howard Carter in 1922.
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