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You are going to read a short article. Five sentences have been removed from the text. Choose
from the sentences A-F the one which fits each gap (31-35). There is an extra sentence you do
not need to use.
When the first Dictionary of National Biography was put together in the 1890s, Julia Margaret Cameron
was the only photographer in its pages, and one of only eighteen women in its 420 entries. That she
was featured at all has much to do with the fact that the editor, Leslie Stephen, was married to her
favourite niece. 5. ______ Among her family and in the art world, her work was held in high regard at
the time of her death in 1879. However, the photography world was less certain and almost a century
passed before it changed its mind.
A. Her father was a judge in the Indian Civil Service and she was born in Calcutta in 1815.
B. Servants and simple villagers played the king, his queen and the noblemen of the poems.
C. The Journal of the London Photographic Society expressed its disapproval.
D. Her surviving prints are now considered masterpieces of their age.
E. Nevertheless, she showed more talent than many of her male contemporaries.
F. But, despite his help, Cameron’s reputation didn’t immediately survive her.