Burnished and braced
Alethea Hayter, 12 July 1990
A Second Self: The Letters of Harriet Granville 1810-1845
edited by Virginia Surtees.
Michael Russell, 320 pp., £14.95, April 1990,0 85955 165 2 Show More
edited by Virginia Surtees.
Michael Russell, 320 pp., £14.95, April 1990,
“... portrait. The only reading she mentions often is of contemporary best-sellers like Byron and Scott and Moore who were likely to be discussed at parties. She did enjoy the theatre, and to some extent music, but she has more to say about Rossini’s appearance – ‘a fat sallow squab of a man but with large, languishing eyes’ – than about his music ... ”