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James Stourton
His Second Home Was Clarence House
Who Loses, Who Wins: The Journals of Kenneth Rose – Volume Two, 1979–2014
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Hugh Massingberd
Now We Can Know
Deep Romantic Chasm: Diaries 1979–1981
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December 2018 Issue
Jane Ridley
Full of Heirs and Graces
Who’s In, Who’s Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose – Volume One 1944–1979
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Pamela Norris
Who Is Sylvia?
The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950–1962
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Sara Wheeler
A Nonagenarian Writes
In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary
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Christopher Hawtree
Sequacious and Robust
The Diary of Virginia Woolf Vol. 5
By Virgina Woolf (Edited by Anne Olivier Bell)
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June 1998 Issue
Kathryn Hughes
What Life Held for a Clergyman’s Daughter
A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen: The Journals and Letters of Agnes Porter
By Joanna Martin (ed)
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Nicholas Shakespeare
Diarist who Makes your Hair Stand on End
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By Anthony Powell
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April 2018 Issue
Catherine Peters
Deb’s Distress
Miss Palmer’s Diary: The Secret Journals of a Victorian Lady
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Cosmo Landesman
Glitz Spirit
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October 2017 Issue
Charlie Campbell
Shelf Life
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Sheridan Morley
Disappearing Act
My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor
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Jane Ridley
Rex Whistler Painted Her Hall
A Constant Heart: The War Diaries of Maud Russell 1938–1945
By Emily Russell (ed)
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Richard Davenport-Hines
Dark Arts & Coronets
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November 2016 Issue
Patrick Scrivenor
Voice from the Western Front
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By Charles Abel Smith (ed)
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May 1980 Issue
Stephen Trombley
Virginia Woolf
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Hilary Mantel
In Her Black Books
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By Angela Emanuel (ed)
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May 2016 Issue
Frances Wilson
Bin There, Done That
A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in a Skip
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May 2016 Issue
Nigel Andrew
Putting Down Roots
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By Richard Fortey
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D J Taylor
Sorrowing in Sunlight
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