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Swallowing The Pills With The Jam

Claudia Fitzherbert CHARLO 1 YONGE by Alethea Hayter Northcote House, £7.99, pp. 81 C harlotte M. Yonge, the Victorian novelist prolific even by the standards of her age, has......

Telegrams And Tranquillity

Frances Partridge DEAR WRITER. . . DEAR ACTRESS: THE LOVE LETTERS OF OLGA KNIPPER AND ANTON CHEKHOV edited by John Benedetti Methuen, £18.99, pp. 292 h e distinctive genius of......