Lulworth Skipper - in Literature

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In the novel The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy, a reference is made to the "strange copper-coloured butterflies" which are found in parts of Dorset but nowhere else; this is generally agreed to be a reference to the Lulworth Skipper.

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