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Aphra Jonathan Keates

Reconstructing Aphra: A Social Biography of Aphra Behn Angeline Goreau (Oxford £8.95) Aphra Behn is one of comparatively few 17th-century Writers whOm it is possible to imagine......

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Paul Ableman The Cosway Minlatpre Robert Rubens (Bachman and Turner E5.65) This book is a light-hearted caper. At least, that's what it says on the dust cover, and not......