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Middle Of The Road

Tudor Secretary. By F. G. Emmison. (Long- mans, 50s.) THE county archivist of Essex has written a closely and accurately documented, but aka perfectly readable biography of a......

Mother-goddess

Edith Simcox and George Eliot. By K. A. McKenzie. (O.U.P., 18s.) FEW people can ever have heard of Edith Simcox. An obscure Victorian spinster, who once hoped that her book on......