Dear Sphinx
Penelope Fitzgerald
- The Little Ottleys by Ada Leverson and Sally Beauman
Virago, 543 pp, £3.95, November 1982, ISBN 0 86068 300 1 - The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy and Anita Brookner
Virago, 326 pp, £3.50, August 1983, ISBN 0 86068 354 0 - The Constant Novelist: A Study of Margaret Kennedy 1896-1967 by Violet Powell
Heinemann, 219 pp, £10.95, June 1983, ISBN 0 434 59951 4
Ada Leverson (1862-1933) said she had learned about human nature in the nursery. A little brother got her to help him make a carriage out of two chairs, but when he was taken out in a real carriage he was not in the least interested. Certainly she never under-estimated the human capacity for imagination or for disappointment.
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Vol. 5 No. 22/23 · 1 December 1983 » Penelope Fitzgerald » Dear Sphinx
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