18 DECEMBER 1993, page 64

Private Faces In Public Places

Victoria Rothschild SEX, RECTITUDE AND LONELINESS by James Simmons Lapwing Publications, 1 Ballysillan Drive, Belfast, BT14 8HQ, £2, pp. 48 T hese vivid, desolating poems by......

Write On, But No Baby

Philip Mansel ISABELLE DE CHARRIERE (BELLE DE ZUYLEN) by C. P. Courtney Voltaire Foundation, 99 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 7RB, £49, pp. 810 T h e 18th century was a century......