23 MAY 1970, page 15

Books The Brownings Through Their Letters

JOHN HOLLOWAY Elizabeth Barrett was already known as a leading 'poetess' when, in 1839, a second bout of tuberculosis (undiagnosed just as the first had been years before)......

Creative Critic

HENRY TUBE inventory Michel Butor, edited by Richard Howard (Cape 42s) 42s) The Writing on the Wall Mary McCarthy (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 45s) The Situation of the Novel......

Belle Brighton

EDMUND W. GELBERT Life in Brighton Clifford Musgrave (Faber I20s) William Cobbett, writing in 1832, described Brighton as 'certainly surpassing in beauty all other towns in the......