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Moving Left Off Stage

Helen Osborne GLENDA JACKSON by Chris Bryant ThaperCollins, £16.99, pp. 292 I magine, if you have the bottle for it, a teenage Glenda Jackson swinging naked and unadorned from......

Reversing Family History

Petronella Wyatt THE SINGING LINE by Alice Thomson Chatto, £16.99, pp. 304 I n 1855 the authoress's 18-year-old great- great-grandmother decided to marry a man she hardly knew.......