For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Britain & Sexuality and Gender

December 2019 Issue

Frances Spalding

Widening the Frame

Voyaging Out: British Women Artists from Suffrage to the Sixties

By Carolyn Trant

November 2019 Issue

Susan Owens

Out of the Shadows

Pre-Raphaelite Sisters

By Jan Marsh, with contributions by Peter Funnell, Charlotte Gere, Pamela Gerrish Nunn & Alison Smith

February 1994 Issue

Alain de Botton

Dismal Bumpkins

Fathers and Daughters

By Sue Sharpe

August 1989 Issue

Barbara Stevens Heusel

Dame Iris at Seventy: An American Examines Her Feminist Record

By Iris Murdoch

Valerie Grove

Mayfair Lady

Marriages are Made in Bond Street: True Stories from a 1940s Marriage Bureau

By Penrose Halson

September 2015 Issue

Richard Canning

Growing up in Gray’s Inn

Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father

By Adam Mars-Jones

March 2003 Issue

Andrew Barrow

She Was A Man

Who War Dr Charlotte Back?

By Francis Wheen

October 2004 Issue

Andrew Lycett

Camouflage Expert

Dirk Bogarde: The Authorised Biography

By John Coldstream

December 2008 Issue

Frances Wilson

The Magnet of Love

Doctor of Love: James Graham and his Celestial Bed

By Lydia Syson

December 2007 Issue

Henrietta Garnett

Acting the Part

Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life

By Deirdre David

February 2013 Issue

Catherine Peters

Carry On Cross-Dressing

Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England

By Neil McKenna