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In 1978, two years after writing her last novel, Wallace returned to live in Diss for the remaining eleven years of her life, leaving her son
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teacher and social campaigner. In more than 40 novels she is seen to explore examples of "comic and tragic cross-purposes between different classes, sexes and generations".
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Wallace's social campaigning came to the fore in the agricultural depression of the 1930s. Her moves against the imposition of
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