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A Liberal Joker In The Royal Presence

John Jolliffe HENRY AND MARY PONSONBY: LIFE AT THE COURT OF QUEEN VICTORIA by William M. Kuhn Duckworth, ,f20, pp 302. ISBN 0715630652 H enry Ponsonby was Queen Victoria's......

Trying To Climb The Family Tree

Charlotte Jo11 THE BLOOD DOCTOR by Barbara Vine i16.99, pp.400, ISBN 0670912743 W hen Antonia Byatt wrote Possession in 1990 she spawned a now ubiquitous genre of novels which......