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The Harlot's Progress

Jane Ridley HARRIETTE WILSON: LADY OF PLEASURE by Valerie Grosvenor Myer Fern House, L1750, pp. 178 shall not say why and how I became at the age of 15 the mistress of the Earl......

A Marshmallow Easily Consumed

Frederic Raphael MY MOVIE BUSINESS by John Irving Bloomsbury, £12.99, pp. 177 T he novelist and screenwriter run on parallel lines which sometimes meet at the bank. Even when......