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The Outline of H.G. Wells

A Man of Parts

by David Lodge

September 29, 2011 issue

At the Heart of the Onion

Roald Dahl: A Biography

by Jeremy Treglown

June 9, 1994 issue

Dickens’s Girls

June 13, 1991 issue

Frankenstein’s Mother

As Muriel Spark points out in her biography of Mary Shelley, Shelley's lucid, rational, and straightforward prose makes the surreal horrors of her story much more effective than the inflated rhetoric of her contemporaries’ Gothic tales.

Mary Shelley: A Biography

by Muriel Spark

The Journals of Mary Shelley: 1814–1844, Vol. I, 1814–1822 Vol. II, 1822–1844

edited by Paula R. Feldman, edited by Diana Scott-Kilvert

November 19, 1987 issue

Mr. Wrong

The Letters of John Middleton Murry to Katherine Mansfield

selected and edited by C.A. Hankin

November 24, 1983 issue

Katherine Mansfield’s Secrets

The Life of Katherine Mansfield

by Antony Alpers

May 15, 1980 issue

Frontstage Wife

The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume II: 1912-1922

edited by Nigel Nicolson, edited by Joanne Trautmann

March 31, 1977 issue