Blogs in January 1970

Imagined London 1st January 1970

Anna Quindlen has visited London on numerous occasions and has written this account of London, based on her own literary map, tracing the footsteps of her favourite literary characters – where, for example, the bright young things of Evelyn...

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Bleak House 1st January 1970

It is at once a complex mystery story that fully engages the reader in the work of detection, and an unforgettable indictment of an indifferent society. Its representations of a great city’s underworld, and of the law’s corruption and...

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Excellent Women 1st January 1970

Mildred Lathbury is one of those ‘excellent women’ who is often taken for granted. She is a godsend, ‘capable of dealing with most of the stock situations of life – birth, marriage, death, the successful jumble sales, the garden...

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Alys, Always 1st January 1970

Frances Thorpe, a sub-editor on the books pages of the Questioner, is one of those quiet women it’s advisable to watch. A thirty-something living alone in a shabby north London flat, she’s stuck in a job that she thinks...

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West End Girls 1st January 1970

They may be twin sisters, but Lizzie and Penny Berry are complete opposites – Penny is blonde, thin and outrageous: Lizzie quiet, thoughtful and definitely not thin. The one trait they do share is a desire to DO something...

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