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“... before his own. Most to be regretted among these overlooked works are the two pamphlets on Shaw by Margery Morgan that came out during 1982 as Numbers 274 and 276 in the series ‘Writers and their Work’. Margery Morgan’s previous books on Shaw and Granville-Barker are well-known and highly-regarded. It is ...”

“... enthralling results. He was withdrawn at times, and his dreams troubled Nicoll. Willa decided, as Margery Palmer McCulloch puts it in her new study of their marriage, ‘that remoteness was clearly a Muir family characteristic, “a built-in power of withdrawing into some inner fastness of their own”’ – an Orkney of the mind.One of the strengths of ...”

“... Marlon Brando in The Wild One. Patrick Wright, in Passport to Peking, quotes the Labour politician Morgan Phillips, who visited China as part of a delegation in 1954. ‘As I saw the great mass of cycles on the road I was reminded of a day in Bedford during the last war … The workers were leaving the factory for the lunch-hour break. All at once I seemed to ...”