Modern Virginity
Paul Delany, 27 February 1992
Song of Love: The Letters of Rupert Brooke and Noel Olivier 1909-1915
edited by Pippa Harris.
Bloomsbury, 302 pp., £17.99, November 1991,0 7475 1048 2 Show More
edited by Pippa Harris.
Bloomsbury, 302 pp., £17.99, November 1991,
“... them: ‘they destroy all one’s judgment – turn one into an ape.’ For an upper-middle-class young lady, born in the reign of Victoria, these were unusual sentiments. Song of Love provides a much clearer picture of Noel’s character than could be seen in the documents previously available. She told Rupert that when she was a child Edward Garnett had ... ”