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The Mother Of All Mothers

Frederick Raphael WHISTLER AND HIS MOTHER: AN UNEXPECTED RELATIONSHIP by Sarah Walden Gibson Square Books, £15.99, pp. 304 ISBN 1903933285 A sked how he came to be born in......

The Critical Eye Of A Single Woman

Jane Gardam CARLYLE'S HOUSE AND OTHER SKETCHES by Virginia Woolf Hespents, f4.99, pp. 88 ISBN 1843910551 W hen Virginia Woolf was 27 she bound a quarto notebook of 214 pages and......