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Playing The Game Of Passion

David Nokes ISABELLE DE CHARRIERE: THERE ARE NO LE I MRS LIKE YOURS edited by Janet and Malcolm Whatley University of Nebraska Press, £20, pp. 551 H orace Walpole championed the......

A Country Of The Mind

Francis King BOHEMIANS: THE GLAMOROUS OUTCASTS by Elizabeth Wilson I.B. Tauris, £19.95, pp. 262 A s the author herself acknowledges, the first problem faced by anyone setting......