Hoydens
Susannah Clapp, 18 February 1988
A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924
by Julia Briggs.
Hutchinson, 473 pp., £16.95, November 1987,9780091682101 Show More
by Julia Briggs.
Hutchinson, 473 pp., £16.95, November 1987,
Narratives of Love and Loss: Studies in Modern Children’s Fiction
by Margaret Rustin and Michael Rustin.
Verso, 268 pp., £22.95, November 1987,9780860911876 Show More
by Margaret Rustin and Michael Rustin.
Verso, 268 pp., £22.95, November 1987,
“... Hubert Bland was very big and very vain. The son of a Woolwich clerk, he sported a top hat, a black-ribboned monocle, and an aggressively argumentative manner. When his wife wanted to make sure he saw a message she would prop it in the frame of a looking-glass (Julia Briggs deposits this information in a footnote, as she does other sprightly ... ”