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is rich in so many ways. (...) Its most striking references, however, were to contemporary
Christiania, and alert readers could spot references to places such as Kurland, a Kristiania 'Lover's Lane', and institutions such as Hartvig Nissen's girls' school."
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was centered on the school. The then relatively new progressive girls' school is also referenced in the 1862 play
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