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Berlioz

Peter Quennell Fair Ophelia: A Life of Harriet Smithson Peter Raby (Cambridge University Press £12.95) Q hakespeare, whom Voltaire had once L/rudely dismissed, first conquered......

Who Sweeps A Room

Alastair Best A Woman's Work is Never Done: A History of Housework in the British Isles 650-1950 Caroline Davidson (Chatto & Windus £15) A s a captive househusband, tethered for......