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A Woman Of Some Importance

Raymond Carr FANNY TROLLOPE by Pamela Neville-Sington Viking, £20, pp. 432 F rom prime ministers down, we are all Trollopians now. This is a modem fashion. A Trollope addict in......

Looking Tragedy In The Face

Anita Brookner THE COLLECTED STORIES by Grace Paley Virago, £9.99, pp. 400 G race Paley was born in New York in 1922, the child of Russian Jewish immi- grant parents. Incomers......