11 JULY 1987, page 35

The Importance Of Darning Socks

David Nokes FAMILY FORTUNES: MEN AND WOMEN OF THE ENGLISH MIDDLE-CLASS 1780-1850 by Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall Hutchinson, £25, £10.95 A LASTING RELATIONSHIP: PARENTS......

A Rider On The Stand

Jeffrey Bernard ON BOXING by Joyce Carol Oates Bloomsbury, £9.95 T here shouldn't be anything much more extraordinary about a woman writing a book about boxing than there is......