5 MAY 1933, page 22

Love In The Forties

Letters of Courtship.. Edited by E. F. Carritt. (Humphrey Milford. 7s. 6d.) • - How reckless they were ! Here is John Torr, aged twenty, writing to his cousin Maria Jackson,......

The Tragic Muse En Deshabille

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