The New Leader, August 8th, 1988
EDWARDIAN LIVES
IN LITERARY CIRCLES the term "Edwardian" conjures up expectations of a tart, amusing novel, a sparkling memoir, or perhaps a volume of mauve-tined verse--ideal summer reading, particularly if you happen to be lolling in a hammock, soothed by the ripple of distant laughter from the croquet court. Suppose you have just finished a Nancy Mitford or Angela Thirkell, and you're not quite ready to pick up that pretty chapbook of A Shropshire Lad again. Then I would recommend two new biographies of lesser-known Edwardians: Penelope Fitzgerald's Charlotte Mew and Her Friends (Addison...
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