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'The Body of His Desire was advertised in May 1912 with the following — perhaps dubious — enticements: ‘The plot is extraordinary. The theme is the psychic conflict in the soul of a popular preacher, who materializes out of his own vital essence the spirit of one whom he has loved and forsaken in an earlier incarnation.'
Source: Carter, David. "A Peacock's Plume Among a Pile of Geese Feathers: Rosa Praed in the United States." Queensland Review 21.1 (2014): 34. Print.
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Dedication: To the Comprehending Sympathy of My Friend Esther Lady Blomfield I Dedicate This Simple Story of the Struggles of a Soul
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