For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Group biography & 19th Century

October 2000 Issue

Thomas Hodgkinson

But What Did They Eat?

The Immortal Dinner

By Penelope Hughes-Hallett

March 2004 Issue

Valerie Grove

Keeping Up with the Burne-Joneses

A Profound Secret: May Gaskell, Her Daughter Amy, and Edward Burne Jones

By Josceline Dimbleby

August 2004 Issue

Jonathan Keates

Sappho’s Priestesses

Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho and Art - The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks

By Diani Souhami

Catherine Peters

Experiments In Living

Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives

By Daisy Hay

July 2008 Issue

Peter Washington

It’s All Relative

House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family

By Paul Fisher

August 2007 Issue

Leo McKinstry

Pioneers at Work

The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Creation of the Modern World 1776–1914

By Gavin Weightman

July 2006 Issue

Henrietta Garnett

A Palette of Painters

The Private Lives of the Impressionists

By Sue Roe

April 2006 Issue

Jane Rye

The Studio in the South

The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles

By Martin Gayford

February 2005 Issue

Henrietta Garnett

Arbitrators of the Mind

The Strachey Family

By Barbara Caine

October 2012 Issue

Anne Sebba

Sitting Pretty

Wives and Stunners: The Pre-Raphaelites and Their Muses

By Henrietta Garnett