Taking the Blame

Jean McNicol

  • Jennie Lee: A Life by Patricia Hollis
    Oxford, 459 pp, £25.00, November 1997, ISBN 0 19 821580 0

In 1957 Jennie Lee wrote a long letter, which she did not send, to her husband Aneurin Bevan, asking him to give her ‘a little self-confidence’. The end of the letter makes it clear that Lee is really talking to herself:

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