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A Reputation Established By A Wife

Shirley Robin Letwin TROUBLED LIVES: JOHN AND SARAH AUSTIN by Lotte and Joseph Hamburger University of Toronto Press, £30 F or some time now, we have been getting the......

Contents Of A Large Wainscot Chest

Peter Quennell HORACE WALPOLE'S MEMOIRS Edited by John Brooke Yale, 3 vols, f65 W hereas some men remain childish all their lives, others appear to become middle-aged in spirit......