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The First In Line

Ronald Segal THE BONDWOMAN'S NARRATIVE by Hannah Crafts Virago, £10.99, pp. 338, ISBN 1860490131 H enry Louis Gates Jr. chairs the Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard......

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Simon Hoggart About 20 years ago I met a French vigneron in a Cognac château and told him that English wine was hugely improved. He favoured me with that look of mingled pity......