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Accounts of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir describe them living in hotels and spending much of their time in cafes. Would this lifestyle have been considered luxurious in its context, or was it more of a frugal arrangement?

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Compared with other prisoners of his day, is it likely that Oscar Wilde had a particularly easy or a particularly hard time of his prison sentence?

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I've read that Queen Victoria was interested in Spiritualism and the occult and even took part in seances. How was this reconciled with her position as head of the Church of England?

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Accounts of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir describe them living in hotels and spending much of their time in cafes. Would this lifestyle have been considered luxurious in its context, or was it more of a frugal arrangement?	2854
Compared with other prisoners of his day, is it likely that Oscar Wilde had a particularly easy or a particularly hard time of his prison sentence?	21
I've read that Queen Victoria was interested in Spiritualism and the occult and even took part in seances. How was this reconciled with her position as head of the Church of England?	7