Vol. 4 No. 14 · 5 August 1982
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Vol. 4 No. 14 · 5 August 1982
J.P. Stern
Marbot by Wolfgang Hildesheimer. Suhrkamp, 326 pp., May 1981, 3 518 03205 4
Letters
Paul Sieghart, Charles Martindale, Stephen Logan, Joseph Bristow, Antony Easthope, Claude Rawson, David Pease
V.S. Pritchett
Memoirs of a Midget by Walter de la Mare. Oxford, 392 pp., £3.50, May 1982, 0 19 281344 7
Francis Wyndham
Francis Wyndham writes about his grandmother, Ada Leverson
A.J.P. Taylor
War in our Time
Charles Townshend
Northern Irish Initiatives
Denis Donoghue
Trinity College Dublin 1592-1952: An Academic History by R.B. McDowell and D.A. Webb. Cambridge, 580 pp., £35, June 1982, 0 521 23931 1
Roy Porter
Coram’s Children: The London Foundling Hospital in the 18th Century by Ruth McClure. Yale, 321 pp., £15, September 1981, 0 300 02465 7 Children of the Empire by Gillian Wagner. Weidenfeld, 284 pp., £10.95, March 1982, 0 297 78047 6
John Brewer
English Society in the Eighteenth Century by Roy Porter. Allen Lane/Pelican, 424 pp., £12.50, April 1982, 0 7139 1417 3
Norman Hampson
Interpreting the French Revolution by François Furet, translated by Elborg Forster. Cambridge, 204 pp., £15, September 1981, 0 04 330316 1 Class, Ideology and the Rights of Nobles during the French Revolution by Patrice Higonnet. Oxford, 358 pp., £22.50, November 1981, 0 19 822583 0
Ronald Hutton
Fenland Riots and the English Revolution by Keith Lindley. Heinemann, 259 pp., £16.50, March 1982, 0 435 32535 3 Commonwealth to Protectorate by Austin Woolrych. Oxford, 433 pp., £22.50, March 1982, 0 19 822659 4
Robert Bernard Martin
The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson: Vol. 1 1821-1850 edited by Cecil Lang and Edgar Shannon. Oxford, 366 pp., £17.50, February 1982, 0 19 812569 0 Tennyson: ‘In Memoriam’ edited by Susan Shatto and Marion Shaw. Oxford, 397 pp., £25, March 1982, 0 19 812747 2
Patricia Beer
Poem: ‘Blood will have blood’
Richard Altick
John Henry Newman: His Life and Work by Brian Martin. Chatto, 160 pp., £8.95, May 1982, 0 7011 2588 8 Protestant versus Catholic in Mid-Victorian England by Walter Arnstein. Missouri, 271 pp., £14, June 1982, 9780826203540
Robert Taubman
Sabbatical by John Barth. Secker, 366 pp., £7.50, July 1982, 0 436 03675 4 Distant Relations by Carlos Fuentes. Secker, 225 pp., £7.95, July 1982, 0 436 16764 6 Keepers of the House by Lisa St Aubin de Teran. Cape, 183 pp., £6.95, July 1982, 0 224 02001 3 An Old Song by Robert Louis Stevenson. Wilfion Books, 102 pp., £5.95, June 1982, 0 905075 12 9
Hans Keller
Hans Keller on the paradisal aspects of the 1982 World Cup
Peter Campbell
Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks. Hamish Hamilton, 109 pp., £8.95, July 1982, 9780241107614
Ian Hamilton
Diary: Locating the G-Spot
Margot Heinemann
Bertolt Brecht in America by James Lyon. Princeton, 408 pp., £11, January 1981, 0 691 06443 1 Bertolt Brecht: Political Theory and Literary Practice edited by Betty Webber and Hubert Heinen. Manchester, 208 pp., £15, February 1981, 0 7190 0806 9 Brecht by Jan Needle and Peter Thomson. Blackwell, 235 pp., £9, February 1981, 0 631 19610 2
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