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Not Yet The Heroine Of Her Own Life

Alan Judd AN IMMODEST VIOLET by Joan Hardwick Deutsch, £14.99, pp. 205 V iolet Hunt (1862-1948) was 'a fashionable and faintly vicious blue stock- ing', authoress of 29 books......

The Russian Resurrection

John Jolliffe GORBACHEV, GLASNOST AND THE GOSPEL by Michael Bourdeaux Hodder & Stoughton, £13.95, £8.99, pp. 226 D ostoevsky once wrote that the voca- tion of the Russian people......

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