''Called Back'' is an 1883 mystery/romance novel written by Englishman Frederick John Fargus under the pseudonym Hugh Conway and published in

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. Over 350,000 copies were sold within four years, and Fargus produced a stage version in London in 1884. The book was popular during the 1880s in

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, a fact that has been correlated with the use of the phrase "called back" by American poet

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in her later life. The book, which a friend sent to her, impressed her. She used the title in a later letter. In what was evidently the last letter she composed shortly before she died in May 1886, she simply wrote, "Little Cousins, Called back. Emily."

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{{reflist English novels Works published under a pseudonym 1883 British novels British mystery novels British romance novels