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Salons

Great Hostesses Brian Masters (Constable £8.95) A dumpy woman, with a slight look of Mrs Ronnie Greville, stands bemused in the middle of a room, a dog at her feet, while an......

Realms Of Gold

Elizabeth Jenkins Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner Edited by William Maxwell (Chatto & Windus £15) I n the 1930s, when one was young, three writers seemed to be of......