Poor Jack
Noël Annan, 5 December 1985
Leaves from a Victorian Diary
by Edward Leeves and John Sparrow.
Alison Press/Secker, 126 pp., £8.95, September 1985,0 436 24370 9 Show More
by Edward Leeves and John Sparrow.
Alison Press/Secker, 126 pp., £8.95, September 1985,
“... had in fact been sitting there for longer perhaps than Christopher Isherwood knew. In June 1849 Edward Leeves, an elderly expatriate, driven out of Venice by the Austrian bombardment, made his way to London. There he met Jack Brand, a trooper in the Blues. A month later Leeves went to Scotland to stay with the ... ”