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Mixed Marriages

Wilfred De'Ath Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages Phyllis Rose ( Chatto & Windus/The Hogarth Press £11.95) R eading about these Victorian marriages (Jane and Thomas......

A Very Rural Dean

Allan Massie Jonathan Swift, Political Writer J. A. Downie (Routledge & Kegan Paul £25) W as Swift a Whig or a Tory? An arid and exhausted question you may think; Dr Downie,......