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Two left. 23a Butler's bigamous kitchen maid (5) E?L?N ELLEN? but I don't see the connection.
28a Comfort offered as the strange start to the title (5) H?S?E
Thanks.

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28a) Alex Comfort wrote Haste to the Wedding[i and [i]haste] is an anagram of 'as the'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Comfort#Partial_bibliography

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23a) Ellen Pontifex is the bigamous maid in Samual Butler's "The Way Of All Flesh[i]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_of_All_Flesh#Main_characters

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(not having much success with italics)

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Thanks a lot B.

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you're very welcome