Living Doll and Lilac Fairy

Penelope Fitzgerald

  • Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington 1893-1932 by Gretchen Gerzina
    Murray, 342 pp, £18.95, June 1989, ISBN 0 7195 4688 5
  • Lydia and Maynard: Letters between Lydia Lopokova and John Maynard Keynes edited by Polly Hill and Richard Keynes
    Deutsch, 367 pp, £17.95, September 1989, ISBN 0 233 98283 3
  • Mazo de la Roche: The Hidden Life by Joan Givner
    Oxford, 273 pp, £18.00, July 1989, ISBN 0 19 540705 9
  • Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby: A Working Partnership by Jean Kennard
    University Press of New England, 224 pp, £24.00, July 1989, ISBN 0 87451 474 6
  • Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville College Novelists by Susan Leonardi
    Rutgers, 254 pp, $33.00, May 1989, ISBN 0 8135 1366 9
  • The Selected Letters of Somerville and Ross edited by Gifford Lewis
    Faber, 308 pp, £14.99, July 1989, ISBN 0 571 15348 8

These books are all witness to a hope as old as the Garden of Eden, the hope of a perfect partnership. The full-length biography of Carrington and the edited correspondence of Maynard Keynes and Lydia Lopokova (from 1918 to their marriage in 1925, more volumes to follow) also suggest that there is still a good deal of reading to be done about Bloomsbury. Both these two books show the fate of newcomers, arrivals in Bloomsbury from the outside.

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