Vol. 6 No. 22 · 6 December 1984

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Vol. 6 No. 22 · 6 December 1984

Marilyn Butler

The Diary of Thomas Turner 1754-1765 edited by David Vaisey. Oxford, 386 pp., £17.50, November 1984, 0 19 211782 3
John Clare’s Autobiographical Writings edited by Eric Robinson. Oxford, 185 pp., £7.95, September 1983, 0 19 211774 2
John Clare: The Journals, Essays, and the Journey from Essex edited by Anne Tibble. Carcanet, 139 pp., £6.95, October 1980, 0 85635 344 2
The Natural History Prose Writings of John Clare edited by Margaret Grainger. Oxford, 397 pp., £35, January 1984, 0 19 818517 0
John Clare and the Folk Tradition by George Deacon. Sinclair Browne, 397 pp., £15, February 1983, 0 86300 008 8

Letters

Randall Rothenberg, Roy MacGregor-Hastie, William Milne, Laura Cumming, R.H. Popkin, Sally

Gavin Ewart

Poem: ‘‘John Betjeman: A Life in Pictures’’

Christopher Driver

The Fourth Reich by Magnus Linklater, Isabel Hilton and Neal Ascherson. Hodder, 352 pp., £9.95, November 1984, 0 340 34443 1
I didn’t say goodbye by Claudine Vegh. Caliban, 179 pp., £7.95, October 1984, 0 904573 93 1

Blake Morrison

Poem: ‘Xerox’

Barbara Wootton

The Diary of Beatrice Webb. Vol. III: ‘The Power to Alter Things’ edited by Norman Mackenzie and Jeanne Mackenzie. Virago, 445 pp., £20, October 1984, 0 86068 211 0
Beatrice and Sidney Webb: Fabian Socialists by Lisanne Radice. Macmillan, 350 pp., £20, June 1984, 0 333 36183 0

Brian Harrison

Significant Sisters: The Grassroots of Active Feminism 1839-1939 by Margaret Forster. Secker, 353 pp., £12.50, September 1984, 0 436 16113 3
Stepping Stones to Women’s Liberty: Feminist Ideas in the Women’s Movement 1900-1918 by Les Garner. Gower, 142 pp., £15, July 1984, 0 435 32357 1
Women First: The Female Tradition in English Physical Education 1880-1980 by Sheila Fletcher. Athlone, 194 pp., £18, July 1984, 0 485 11248 5
A Woman’s Place: An Oral History of Working-Class Women 1890-1940 by Elizabeth Roberts. Blackwell, 246 pp., £14.95, September 1984, 0 631 13572 3

Keith Griffin

The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, Holocaust and Modern Conscience by William Shawcross. Deutsch, 464 pp., £12.95, September 1984, 0 233 97691 4

D.A.N. Jones

The House of Mitford by Jonathan Guinness and Catherine Guinness. Hutchinson, 604 pp., £12.95, November 1984, 0 09 155560 4

E.S. Turner

Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor by Anne Edwards. Hodder, 462 pp., £12.95, September 1984, 0 340 24465 8

T.J. Binyon

Agatha Christie by Janet Morgan. Collins, 393 pp., £12.95, September 1984, 0 00 216330 6

David Lodge

Poem: ‘A Martian goes to College’

Frank Kermode

Frederic Harrison: The Vocations of a Positivist by Martha Vogeler. Oxford, 493 pp., £27.50, September 1984, 0 19 824733 8
Leslie Stephen: The Godless Victorian by Noël Annan. Weidenfeld, 432 pp., £16.50, September 1984, 0 297 78369 6

C.H. Sisson

The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters: Correspondence of George Lyttelton and Rupert Hart-Davis. edited by Rupert Hart-Davis. Murray, 193 pp., £13.50, April 1984, 0 7195 4108 5

Jonathan Bate

The Oxford Book of War Poetry edited by Jon Stallworthy. Oxford, 358 pp., £9.50, September 1984, 0 19 214125 2
Secret Destinations by Charles Causley. Macmillan, 69 pp., £7.95, September 1984, 0 333 38268 4
Fast Forward by Peter Porter. Oxford, 64 pp., £4.50, October 1984, 0 19 211967 2
Dark Glasses by Blake Morrison. Chatto, 71 pp., £3.95, October 1984, 0 7011 2875 5

John Sutherland

Wild Berries by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, translated by Antonia Bovis. Macmillan, 296 pp., £8.95, September 1984, 0 333 37559 9
The Burn by Vassily Aksyonov, translated by Michael Glenny. Hutchinson, 528 pp., £10.95, October 1984, 0 09 155580 9
Fellow Travellers by T.C. Worsley. Gay Men’s Press, 249 pp., £9.95, September 1984, 0 907040 51 9
The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage. Chatto, 276 pp., £9.95, October 1984, 0 7011 3939 0
The Fourth Protocol by Frederick Forsyth. Hutchinson, 448 pp., £8.95, September 1984, 0 09 158630 5
The Set-Up by Vladimir Volkoff, translated by Alan Sheridan. Bodley Head, 397 pp., £8.95, September 1984, 0 370 30583 3

Walter Kendrick

Getting to know the General: The Story of an Involvement by Graham Greene. Bodley Head, 224 pp., £8.95, September 1984, 0 370 30808 5
Saints, Sinners and Comedians: The Novels of Graham Greene by Roger Sharrock. Burns and Oates, 298 pp., £15, September 1984, 0 86012 134 8
Travels in Greeneland: The Cinema of Graham Greene by Quentin Falk. Quartet, 229 pp., £14.95, September 1984, 0 7043 2425 3
The Other Man: Conversations with Graham Greene by Marie-Françoise Allain. Bodley Head, 187 pp., £7.50, April 1983, 0 370 30468 3

Emma Tennant

Story: ‘The German in the Wood’

A.J.P. Taylor

Diary: An Unexpected Experience

Peter Campbell

William Kent by Michael Wilson. Routledge, 276 pp., £30, July 1984, 0 7100 9983 5
James Gibbs by Terry Friedman. Yale, 362 pp., £40, November 1984, 0 300 03172 6
Sir John Soane, Architect by Dorothy Stroud. Faber, 300 pp., £32, May 1984, 9780571130504
The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable by Graham Reynolds. Yale, 880 pp., £140, October 1984, 0 300 03151 3

Conrad Russell

The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester edited by Keith Walker. Blackwell, 319 pp., £35, September 1984, 0 631 12573 6

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