24 OCTOBER 1987, page 30

Madness In Great Ones

Peter Quennell A SOCIAL HISTORY OF MADNESS: STORIES OF THE INSANE by Roy Porter Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £14.95 O ld Bedlam, which overlooked Moor- fields, was an elegant piece of......

289 Women Of No Importance

Isabel Colegate WOMEN by Naim Attallah Quartet, £15 M r Naim Attallah, the publisher, as everyone must know by now, gave 289 women lunch. He asked them how they felt about being......