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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......

Wild Gosse Chase

Christopher Hawtree Edmund Gosse Ann Thwaite (Seeker & Warburg £15) s a child, Edmund Gosse was 'rather injudiciously' shown a large print of a human skeleton and asked whether......