Former Lovers
Michael Mason, 6 September 1984
The Bourgeois Experience. Victoria to Freud Vol. I: Education of the Senses
by Peter Gay.
Oxford, 608 pp., £18.50, March 1984,0 19 503352 3 Show More
by Peter Gay.
Oxford, 608 pp., £18.50, March 1984,
Austin and Mabel: The Amherst Affair and Love Letters of Austin Dickinson and Mabel Loomis Todd
by Polly Longsworth.
Farrar, Straus, 449 pp., £18.50, September 1984,0 374 10716 5 Show More
by Polly Longsworth.
Farrar, Straus, 449 pp., £18.50, September 1984,
The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds
edited by Phyllis Grosskurth.
Hutchinson, 319 pp., £14.95, May 1984,0 09 154170 0 Show More
edited by Phyllis Grosskurth.
Hutchinson, 319 pp., £14.95, May 1984,
“... in Austin and Mabel: a selection from the love-letters, with a commentary in which the compiler, Polly Longsworth, does her best to put Mabel in a good, or tolerable, light. Mabel’s personal writings, however polemical, were presumably not written with an eye to publication: though she was thinking soon after Austin’s death of putting out their ... ”
