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Mary Beard

  • Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life by Georgina Ferry

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Mary Beard is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge and classics editor of the TLS. Her books include a Life of Jane Ellen Harrison and The Parthenon.

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