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Looking back

Ten portraits of some of the finest novelists, essayists and biographers of our time, women: Lesley Blanch, Lady Diana Cooper, Joan Haslip, Juliette Huxley, Molly Keane, Rosamond Lehmann, Diana Mosley, Frances Partridge, Kathleen Raine, P.L. Travers.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 308 pages

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