Susan’s Bookshelves: Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

I read it as a child. And now I look at how wordy Beecher Stowe’s unexpurgated version is, I’m pretty sure that it must have must been an abridged version that the 10 or 11 year old me read. Then Petroc Trelawny recently remarked on Radio 3 (I can’t remember the context) that nobody reads […]

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Lonely Angel (Susan Elkin reviews)

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