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Bright And Fierce And Fickle

Frances Partridge BERTRAND RUSSELL: A LIFE by Caroline Moorehead Sinclair-Stevenson, £20, pp. 596 T ree passions, simple but over- whelmingly strong, have governed my life',......

Too Much Goes Into A Best Cellar

Francis King DAUGHTERS OF THE HOUSE by Michele Roberts Virago, £14.99, pp. 172 T he past is a palimpsest: so many con- flicting memories and imaginations have scrawled their......