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Wigs, Patches And Gin

Lucy Moore DR JOHNSON'S LONDON by Liza Picard Weidenfeld, £20, pp. 362 I n the preface to Dr Johnson's London, Liza Picard describes herself as 'an inquisi- tive, practical......

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