December 1981 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: General Reviews General Reviews Jack Straw Split Personalities Breaking the Mould? By Ian Bradley LR Elizabeth Longford Womanly Behaviour Girls Growing Up in Late Victorian and Edwardian England By Carol Dyhouse LR Margot Strickland Spectral Apparel The Ghost in the Looking Glass By Christina Walkley LR John Lahr Baptism in Ire A Better Class of Person By John Osborne LR
Elizabeth Longford Womanly Behaviour Girls Growing Up in Late Victorian and Edwardian England By Carol Dyhouse LR
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‘The Second World War was won in Oxford. Discuss.’
@RankinNick gives the question his best shot.
Nicholas Rankin - We Shall Fight in the Buttery
Nicholas Rankin: We Shall Fight in the Buttery - Oxford’s War 1939–1945 by Ashley Jackson
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For the first time, all of Sylvia Plath’s surviving prose, a massive body of stories, articles, reviews and letters, has been gathered together in a single volume.
@FionaRSampson sifts it for evidence of how the young Sylvia became Sylvia Plath.
Fiona Sampson - Changed in a Minute
Fiona Sampson: Changed in a Minute - The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath by Peter K Steinberg (ed)
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The ruling class has lost its sprezzatura.
On porky rolodexes and the persistence of elite reproduction, for the @Lit_Review: