Foremost Economist

Rosalind Mitchison, 25 October 1979

Three names​ dominate the debates on the social policy of 19th-century Britain: Bentham, Malthus and Chalmers. The first two were original thinkers whose ideas often contradict the system...

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Sidney and Beatrice

Michael Holroyd, 25 October 1979

‘I can’t help it​ being “Beauty and the Beast,” ’ wrote Sidney Webb to Beatrice Potter shortly before their marriage in 1892, ‘ – if only it is...

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Lawrence and the Mince-Pies

Dan Jacobson, 25 October 1979

In 1932,​ Aldous Huxley published The Collected Letters of D.H. Lawrence, a large brown volume, printed in a curiously elaborate type, which has no doubt become something of a special item in...

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