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Zuleika

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature 2003, originally published by Oxford University Press 2003. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Zuleika, the heroine of Byron's The Bride of Abydos.

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