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during the Victorian era, Gas Light and its adaptations portray a seemingly genteel husband using lies and manipulation to isolate his heiress wife and persuade her that she is mentally ill so that he can steal from her. The wife is perturbed when the gaslights in the house periodically dim, as they normally would if a lamp were lit elsewhere in the house, causing the gas pressure to drop; when she asks the servants, they tell her that nobody else is in the house. Unknown to all of them is that the husband

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