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What is the legacy of Margaret Maultasch?

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Legend has painted her as a woman of great power and evil. Her portrait was Sir John Tenniel's model for the "duchess" in his illustrations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Lion Feuchtwanger utilized her story in his novel The Ugly Duchess (tr. 1928).

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