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Lost Romantic

PATRICK ANDERSON The Journals of Claire Clairmont 1814- 1827 edited by Marion Kingston Stocking (Harvard/our 95s) In the summer of 1814 two young girls ran away from their home......

Early Days

MARGARET DRABBLE Our Kate Catherine Cookson (Macdonald 25s) jean in the Morning Janet Sandison (Mac- millan 30s) Two northern childhoods at the beginning of the century: two......

More Is Less

BARRY COLE The Four-Gated City Doris Lessing (Mac- Gibbon and Kee 45s) Wounds Maureen Duffy (Hutchinson 25s) Doris Lessing's The Four-Gated City is the fifth and last volume of......

A Hundred Years Ago

From the 'Speeral. 3 July 1869—Anybody want a kingdom all for himself, twice as big as the Isle of Wight, with hills as high as Skiddaw, timber. .esh-water streams, beautiful......