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St Barbara-in-the-precinct

A. N. Wilson arbara Pym died with Stoic quietness Li in January 1980. A few months later, Macmillan published her last novel, A Few Green Leaves, and her many admirers must have......

Mothers And Children

Mary Kenny The Myth of Motherhood: an Historical View of the Maternal instinct Elisabeth Badinter (Souvenir Press £8.95, £5.95) I t is evident that our attitudes towards......