Shopping in Lucerne
E.S. Turner, 9 June 1994
Addicted to Romance: The Life and Adventures of Elinor Glyn
by Joan Hardwick.
Deutsch, 306 pp., £20, June 1994,0 233 98866 1 Show More
by Joan Hardwick.
Deutsch, 306 pp., £20, June 1994,
Mother of Oscar: The Life of Jane Francesca Wilde
by Joy Melville.
Murray, 308 pp., £19.99, June 1994,0 7195 5102 1 Show More
by Joy Melville.
Murray, 308 pp., £19.99, June 1994,
“... a child might do who sets light to a whole box of matches in play. What a naughty, naughty toy to burn so quickly.’ And so to a rose-bowered climax in Venice, the physical action undescribed but sufficiently indicated by Nature’s benign responses. ‘Such was their wedding night,’ says Glyn, who did not lack nerve. ‘Oh glorious youth! And still more ... ”