Volume 54, Number 16 · October 25, 2007
Dolores in the East End
By Sheila Hillier
In response to Pottery (September 27, 2007)
To the Editors:
May I be permitted a small correction to Alison Lurie's entertaining piece ["Pottery," NYR, September 27]? "Dolores Umbridge" is indeed a brilliantly chosen name but she could not be suggestive of a "down-to-earth Cockney mum from Coronation Street," since that particular soap opera (if that is the reference) is set in Manchester. Cockneys inhabit Albert Square in Coronation Street's longstanding rival soap Eastenders. This piece of knowledge probably indicates that my time is more misspent than Ms. Lurie's.
Sheila Hillier
Emeritus Professor of Medical Sociology
Queen Mary's School of Medicine
University of London
