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A Shady Wet Nun

Mark Amory W. H. Auden, a biography Humphrey Carpenter (Allen & Unwin pp.460, £12.50) First provenance; it is well established that it does the eminent no good to forbid......

Befogged

Catherine Peters Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography Winifred Gerin (Oxford University Press pp. 310, £12.50) Thackeray's daughter; Leslie Stephen's sister-in-law; close friend......