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ILLICIT INSCRIPTIONS: REFRAMING FORGERY IN ELIZABETH GASKELL'S RUTH
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 April 2005
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Forgery is now considered an offence of the greatest magnitude;… In proportion, therefore, as a nation increases in wealth by buying and selling, it will magnify the criminality of a fraud by which buying and selling may be checked. The change of opinion will show itself in the penal laws, and in the not less deterrent force of social reprobation.
—Luke Owen Pike, History of Crime in England (1876)
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