June 1998 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Biography | From the Pulpit | Biography | Belles Lettres | Women | General Biography Bevis Hillier Do Not Despise the Dilettante William Beckford: Composing For Mozart By Timothy Mowl LR Sebastian Faulks First Attempt Siegfried Sassoon: The Making Of A War Poet By Jean Moorcroft Wilson LR Bryan Appleyard Is He A Genius? Big Jim: The Life And Work of James Stirling By Mark Girouard LR From the Pulpit Auberon Waugh Nobody Loves Them, Nobody Cares LR Biography Jonathan Keates Getting Nearer Johannes Brahms: A Biography By Jan Swafford LR Mick Brown New Literary Form Was Not Writing but Typing Jack Kerouac: King of The Beats - A Portrait By Barry Miles LR John Banville Secrets of the Oxford English Dictionary The Surgeon of Crowthorne By Simon Winchester Belles Lettres Nicholas Murray Vexed His Readers The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt's Radical Style By Tom Paulin LR Norman Moss Perils of Candour Too True By Blake Morrison LR Women Victoria Glendinning A True Heroine of Her Time Fanny Burney: Her Life By Kate Chisholm LR Kathryn Hughes What Life Held for a Clergyman’s Daughter A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen: The Journals and Letters of Agnes Porter By Joanna Martin (ed) LR General Brian Phillips When Neutrality Becomes a Cause for Scandal Dunant’s Dream: War, Switzerland and the History of the Red Cross By Caroline Moorehead LR
Bevis Hillier Do Not Despise the Dilettante William Beckford: Composing For Mozart By Timothy Mowl LR
Sebastian Faulks First Attempt Siegfried Sassoon: The Making Of A War Poet By Jean Moorcroft Wilson LR
Mick Brown New Literary Form Was Not Writing but Typing Jack Kerouac: King of The Beats - A Portrait By Barry Miles LR
Nicholas Murray Vexed His Readers The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt's Radical Style By Tom Paulin LR
Kathryn Hughes What Life Held for a Clergyman’s Daughter A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen: The Journals and Letters of Agnes Porter By Joanna Martin (ed) LR
Brian Phillips When Neutrality Becomes a Cause for Scandal Dunant’s Dream: War, Switzerland and the History of the Red Cross By Caroline Moorehead LR
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