CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Charlotte Brewer
• Peter Campbell
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• Peter Gay
• John Gurney
• Jeremy Harding
• Caroline Humphrey
• Danny Karlin
• Sylvia Lawson
• Rosalind Mitchison
• Les Murray
• Charles Nicholl
• Douglas Oliver
• Peter Parsons
• Roy Porter
• Rodney Pybus
• Tom Shippey
• F.M.L. Thompson

Contents

• 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

• Les Murray
  Poem: ‘Words of the Glassblowers’

• Rodney Pybus
  Poem: ‘Ciao, Fighter!’

• 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

• 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