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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,
“... theme of these fantasies, and to their use of magic as a metaphor for the writer’s imagination. Margaret and Michael Rustin go further. Narratives of Love and Loss discusses several books for children which the authors see as concerned with questions of emotional development and in which they perceive ‘latent depths of ... ”
