In the Company of Confreres
Terry Eagleton: ‘Modern British Fiction’, 12 December 2002
On Modern British Fiction
edited by Zachary Leader.
Oxford, 328 pp., £14.99, October 2002,0 19 924932 6 Show More
edited by Zachary Leader.
Oxford, 328 pp., £14.99, October 2002,
“... of the backpacking generation’. Not all ladies have become women. In a chapter here on P.D. James, Martin Priestman records her distrust of ambitious professional women, approval of loyal housekeepers and disdain for people who say ‘toilet’ when they mean ‘lavatory’. At one point she feels the need to remind herself that not everyone wants to ... ”