18 FEBRUARY 1984, page 27

Soul Music Peter Quennell

The Souls Jane Abdy and Charlotte Gere (Sidgwick and Jackson £12.95) T he Victorian moral code, so far as we can judge from memoirs and letters of the time, never gained a very......

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Christopher Hawtree Spinsters of this Parish Sybil Oldfield (Virago £5.95) 'IQ he has the profile of a gorilla and onc e L./acted Ophelia — does that conveY anything to you?'......

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