Wives, Queens, Distant Princesses
John Bayley, 23 October 1986
The Bondage of Love: A Life of Mrs Samuel Taylor Coleridge
by Molly Lefebure.
Gollancz, 287 pp., £15.95, July 1986,0 575 03871 3 Show More
by Molly Lefebure.
Gollancz, 287 pp., £15.95, July 1986,
Jane Welsh Carlyle
by Virginia Surtees.
Michael Russell, 294 pp., £12.95, September 1986,0 85955 134 2 Show More
by Virginia Surtees.
Michael Russell, 294 pp., £12.95, September 1986,
“... blind lack of consideration, all masquerading as genius or enlightenment or sensitivity. Molly Lefebure has a pretty good idea herself. In her previous Coleridge book, A Bondage of Opium, she told the story from the point of view of drug addiction: now she tells it from the point of view of two young people getting married, and why it was ... ”
