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Original Title: TIL the “sensation novel” was popular from the 1860s to 1890s, particularly in Great Britain. Sensation novels often were melodramas themed around socially taboo and shocking subjects like robbery, murder, seduction, kidnapping and adultery, typically in a domestic setting.