For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Henrietta Garnett

From the June 2018 Issue

Ruffling Feathers

Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather: Fashion, Fury and Feminism – Women’s Fight for Change

By Tessa Boase

From the February 2018 Issue

An Eye for Greatness

The Uncommon Reader: A Life of Edward Garnett

By Helen Smith

From the December 2010 Issue

Shades of Grey

The Model Wife: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, Ruskin and Millais

By Suzanne Fagence Cooper

From the December 2015 Issue

Living in the Shade of Suicide

A Woman on the Edge of Time: A Son’s Search for His Mother

By Jeremy Gavron

From the August 2006 Issue

What Katey May Have Done

Katey: The Artist Daughter of Charles Dickens

By Lucinda Hawksley

From the August 2010 Issue

Spinning and Sorting the Yarn

Into the Frame: The Four Loves of Ford Madox Brown

By Angela Thirlwell

Ford Madox Brown: A Catalogue Raisonné

By Mary Bennett

From the March 2009 Issue

The Fleshy School

Desperate Romantics: The Private Lives of the Pre-Raphaelites

By Franny Moyle

From the April 2008 Issue

Maynard’s Muse

Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes

By Judith Mackrell

From the December 2007 Issue

Acting the Part

Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life

By Deirdre David

From the July 2006 Issue

A Palette of Painters

The Private Lives of the Impressionists

By Sue Roe

From the June 2005 Issue

Reassembling The Jigsaw

Quicksand

By Sybille Bedford

From the February 2005 Issue

Arbitrators of the Mind

The Strachey Family

By Barbara Caine

From the November 2013 Issue

A Glorious Age

Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time

By Penelope Lively