28 FEBRUARY 1981, page 15

Linwood: The Thousandth Cut

Allan Massie It is a curious feeling, walking around a town that's been condemned to death. There are no signs of terminal disease in Linwood, none of the squalor and seedy......

A Liberated Woman

Richard West The Women's Movement has not yet, as far as I know, studied the Tale of the Wife of Bath, by Geoffrey Chaucer, which is a pity, for it has much to say about women......