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This Vigilant, Resolute, Sagacious Bluestocking

Robert Blake HARRIET MARTINEAU: SELECTED LETTERS edited by Valerie Sanders OUP, £30, pp.302 his is a selective collection of 100 or so letters by that celebrated 'miscellaneous......

In There Every Now And Then One Of Them Doesn't

come down to claim Her usual chair. It's all dealt with quietly And Matron is smiling. The rest of them try and think Who it was that sat there yesterday. You don't ask......

Another Dissenting Adult Male

William Scammell MIKHAIL BULGAKOV: A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY by Lesley Milne CUP, £35, pp.324 I t is almost a full-time job trying to keep up with the great Russian writers of this......