Contents · Vol. 11 No. 16 · 31 August 1989

Vol. 11 No. 16 · 31 August 1989

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Caroline Humphrey

Margaret Mead: A Life of Controversy by Phyllis Grosskurth
Ruth Benedict: Stranger in the Land by Margaret Caffrey

Letters

Edna Longley, A.V.C. Schmidt, J.P. Stern, David Craig, Ian Saint-Yves, Norman Stone, Bernard Richards, Freddy Hurdis-Jones, Anna Freeman

Peter Parsons

Oral Tradition and Written Record in Classical Athens by Rosalind Thomas

Sylvia Lawson

Aids and its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
The Whole Truth: The Myth of Alternative Health by Rosalind Coward

Rodney Pybus

Poem: ‘Ciao, Fighter!’

Les Murray

Poem: ‘Words of the Glassblowers’

Rosalind Mitchison

Poverty and Welfare in Scotland 1890-1948 by Ian Levitt
The Retreat of Tuberculosis 1850-1950 by F.B. Smith
Below the Magic Mountain: A Social History of Tuberculosis in 20th-century Britain by Linda Bryder

Tom Shippey

Betrayal: Child Exploitation in Today’s World edited by Caroline Moorehead
The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance by John Boswell

Roy Porter

The Body and the French Revolution: Sex, Class and Political Culture by Dorinda Outram
Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories by Barbara Gates
Sexual Visions: Images of Gender in Science and Medicine between the 18th and 20th Centuries by Ludmilla Jordanova
Family, Love and Work in the Lives of Victorian Gentlewomen by Jeanne Peterson

F.M.L. Thompson

Clichés of Urban Doom, and Other Essays by Ruth Glass
Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the 20th Century by Peter Hall
London 2001 by Peter Hall
The Big Smoke: A History of Air Pollution in London since Medieval Times by Peter Brimblecombe
New York Unbound: The City and the Politics of the Future edited by Peter Salins
The Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Forms in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World by Joseph Rykwert

Peter Gay

The Clinical Diary of Sandor Ferenczi edited by Judith Dupont, translated by Michael Balint and Nicola Zarday Jackson

John Gurney

Poem: ‘Anti-Climax’

Peter Campbell

A Particular Place by Mary Hocking
The House of Fear, Notes from Down Below by Leonora Carrington
Painted Lives by Max Egremont
The Ultimate Good Luck by Richard Ford

Charlotte Brewer

Thoughts on the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary

Charles Nicholl

Ben Jonson: A Life by David Riggs

Danny Karlin

Tennyson and the Doom of Romanticism by Herbert Tucker
Browning the Revisionary by John Woolford
Poetic Remaking: The Art of Browning, Yeats and Pound by George Bornstein
The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry by Eric Griffiths

Douglas Oliver

Poem: ‘The Jains and the Boxer’

Jeremy Harding

Diary: On the Tyson Saga

Penelope Fitzgerald

Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington 1893-1932 by Gretchen Gerzina
Lydia and Maynard: Letters between Lydia Lopokova and John Maynard Keynes edited by Polly Hill and Richard Keynes
Mazo de la Roche: The Hidden Life by Joan Givner
Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby: A Working Partnership by Jean Kennard
Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville College Novelists by Susan Leonardi
The Selected Letters of Somerville and Ross edited by Gifford Lewis

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