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The Right Woman In The Right Place

Sara Maitland THESE SAD BUT GLORIOUS DAYS: DISPATCHES FROM EUROPE 1846-1850 by Margaret Fuller, edited by Larry J. Reynolds and Susan Belasco Smith Yale, £22.50, pp. 338 I know......

A Shocking Love Story

Anita Brookner THE REPUBLIC OF LOVE by Carol Shields Fourth Estate, £14.99, pp. 366 • ■• C arol Shields's voice, pitched some- where between those of Alice Munro and Anne Tyler,......