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Pedestrian In Both Senses

Justin Marozzi WALKING THE BIBLE by Bruce Feller Piatkus, £17.99, pp. 428, ISBN 0749922613 A nericans do many things yen,' well. They win wars, invent spacecraft, compose music,......

The Marriage Market

Charlotte Mitchell THE MAKING OF A MARCHIONESS by Frances Hodgson Burnett Persephone Books, £10, pp. 328, ISBN 1903155142 F rances Hodgson Burnett was much given to lavish......