November 1999 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Painters | Women | Fiction Painters June Rose Making The Best of It Toulous-Lautrec and the Fin de Siecle By David Sweetman LR Women Brenda Maddox Better When Young The Secrets of The Flesh: A Life of Colette By Judith Thurman LR Jessica Mann Importunate Biographers Well Kept at Bay Time to be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography By P D James LR Fiction John Murray A Day Too Long Lovers For A Day By Ivan Klima (Translated by Gerald Turner) LR
Jessica Mann Importunate Biographers Well Kept at Bay Time to be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography By P D James LR
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