Romancing the Novelist

The Shadowy Third: Love, Letters, and Elizabeth Bowen

By Julia Parry

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From the December 2020 Issue

Off the Cuff

Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes

By Claire Wilcox

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From the November 2020 Issue

Waste Not, Want Not

Rummage: A History of the Things We Have Reused, Recycled and Refused to Let Go

By Emily Cockayne

Rag and Bone: A Family History of What We’ve Thrown Away

By Lisa Woollett

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From the October 2020 Issue

The Woolworths Poltergeist

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story from 1930s England

By Kate Summerscale

From the June 2020 Issue

Great Oscillations

The Mystery of Charles Dickens

By A N Wilson

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From the May 2020 Issue

Beauty & Beastliness

The Fairest of Them All: Snow White and 21 Tales of Mothers and Daughters

By Maria Tatar

From the February 2020 Issue

Out of Lanarkshire

Motherwell: A Girlhood

By Deborah Orr

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From the December 2019 Issue

A Postcode of One’s Own

Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars

By Francesca Wade

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From the July 2019 Issue

Picture Imperfect

On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons

By Laura Cumming

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From the June 2019 Issue

Mistress of Disguise

The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime

By Susannah Stapleton

From the April 2019 Issue

Stitches in Time

Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

By Clare Hunter

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From the September 2018 Issue

Lost in Elizabeth

Mrs Gaskell and Me: Two Women, Two Love Stories, Two Centuries Apart

By Nell Stevens

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From the February 2008 Issue

Class Myths

Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age

By Carolyn Steedman

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From the March 2018 Issue

Blazing Their Own Trails

In Byron’s Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron’s Wife and Daughter, Annabella Milbanke & Ada Lovelace

By Miranda Seymour

From the February 2018 Issue

Wagon Lit

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

By Caroline Fraser

From the July 2017 Issue

Austenmania

From the June 2017 Issue

Broad Church

In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult

By Rebecca Stott

Priestdaddy: A Memoir

By Patricia Lockwood

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From the April 2017 Issue

Look into My Eyes

The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound

By Wendy Moore

From the September 2016 Issue

Last Light

Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies

By Ross King

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From the August 2016 Issue

Physician, Conceal Thyself

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