16 MAY 1992, page 27

Gloominess Kept Breaking In

Christopher Bray THE DIARIES OF SIGMUND FREUD 1929-1939 edited by Michael Molnar Hogarth, £35, pp. 326 P erhaps because of his beautiful prose, Sigmund Freud has always been......

Books

An ironic hand in a velvet glove Blair Worden FROM COUNTER- REFORMATION TO GLORIOUS REVOLUTION by Hugh Trevor-Roper Secker, £25, pp. 331 H ugh Trevor-Roper is the leading......

Phil And The Peacock

It was not old age; she was always lame, born in Argentina, to the dazzling dawns, then polio, which caged her in a limp. She did not marry. She bought children cards till she......