From the September 2019 Issue Trouble on the Horizon Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature 1939–51 By D J Taylor LR
From the June 2019 Issue Dancing While France Burned Chanel’s Riviera: Life, Love & the Struggle for Survival on the Côte d’Azur, 1930–1944 By Anne de Courcy
From the September 2017 Issue Courting Danger A B Mitford and the Birth of Japan as a Modern State: Letters Home By Robert Morton LR
From the October 2004 Issue Strange Kinds of Love Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family By Alexander Waugh LR
From the February 2009 Issue Love and Friendship Love’s Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen & Charles Ritchie – Letters & Diaries 1941–1973 By Victoria Glendinning with Judith Robertson (ed) LR
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‘The Second World War was won in Oxford. Discuss.’
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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.
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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: