Church-crawl
Allan Maclean C taying with friends used to entail filling L.3in a column in the Visitors' Book titled Remarks, which could embarrass both departing visitor and host. Visitors'......
Reticence
Francis King I n literature, the fashionably dangerous subject of the Georgian era was incest, of the Victorian, fornication, and of the first half of the 20th century,......
Mayors
Michael Wharton Mr Mayor: the Office of First Citizen W. P. Johns (Robert Hale £8.50) F ew readers of the Spectator, I should think, are likely to become mayors, ev en Lord......
This Week's Contributors
Elizabeth Jenkins is the author of Dr Gully, Elizabeth the Great and The Tortoise and the Hare. Her many other books include a biography of Jane Austen. Lettice Cooper's latest......
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