12 AUGUST 1989, page 22

News From Bloomsbury

Richard Shone CONGENIAL SPIRITS: THE SELECTED LETTERS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF edited by Joanne Troutmann Banks Hogarth, f18.50, pp.400 D earest Nessa, God knows it's a torture to......

The Restructuring Of Frances

Mark Archer FRANCES BURNEY: THE LIFE IN THE WORK by Margaret Ann Doody CUP, £30, pp.441 F arewell Fannekin. Ever since Saints- bury wrote The Peace of the Augustans, biographers......

The Alien Corn

John Michell CIRCULAR EVIDENCE by Pat Delgado and Colin Andrews Bloomsbury, f14.95, pp.192 THE CIRCLES EFFECT AND ITS MYSTERIES by George T. Meaden Artetech Publishing, f9.95,......