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In Sickness And In Health

Teresa Waugh GOOD WIVES? MARY, FANNY, JENNIE, AND ME, 1845-2001 by Margaret Forster Chatto, £17.99, pp. 343, ISBN 0701169141 T he names of the March girls, Beth, Meg. Amy and Jo......

Guilty Of Bad Luck

M. R. D. Foot THE COLDEST MARCH by Susan Solomon Yale, £19.95, pp. 383, ISBN 0300089678 I n this month of gloom and crisis, it is refreshing to read a book that reasserts old......