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A Random Harvest

To celebrate The Spectator's 175th anniversary, Digby Durrant has been looking through past literary pages W hen invited to see how writers have fared at the hands of The......

Unlikely Maid Of Honour

Hugh Massinqberd ELIZABETH: THE SCANDALOUS LIFE OF THE DUCHESS OF KINGSTON by Claire Gervat Century', £17.99. pp. 306. ISBN 0712614516 `1( iss me, Chudleigh,' quipped Auberon......

Besides, The Wench Is Dead . . .

William Leith VIRGINIA by Jens Christian Grondahl Canongate, £7.99, pp. 121, ISBN 1841954101 D enmark, 1942. The country is occupied by the Germans. At night, Danes lie in their......