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A Painter At Home

Frances Partridge SELECTED =ERS OF VANESSA BELL edited by Regina Marler Bloomsbury, 125, pp. 593 W hat is one to do,' writes Vanessa Bell to her sister Virginia after reading......

Fame Was The Spur

Jane Ridley DISRAELI by Stanley Weintraub Hamish Hamilton, £25," pp. 717 I am the blank page between the Old Testament and the New,' Disraeli once declared, and with this fat......