Contemporary Review, October 1st, 1994
When the subject of a biography is a moving target, lives to move on, when global place-names and personages must be inserted into the narrative, the task of achieving completeness and accuracy can stifle the more interesting and penetrative matter of interpretation. That is why a Life of A. E. Housman is more absorbing than some tale of voyaging and adventure. Elinor Glyn, a kind of moral adventuress, led a restless life, whose details are not generally well known, and has not attracted a great deal of biographical attention. Her grandson, Sir Anthony Glyn, wrote a beautifully judged account....
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