A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and LettersDutton, 1984 - 358 pages |
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... called for me and we went for a long and energetic walk it being such a fine afternoon . I was hatless and Atalantesque in blue . 5 November . Guy Fawkes day . In the evening we ventured out - first we went along to Norham Gardens to ...
... called for me and we went for a long and energetic walk it being such a fine afternoon . I was hatless and Atalantesque in blue . 5 November . Guy Fawkes day . In the evening we ventured out - first we went along to Norham Gardens to ...
Page 137
... called Princeton House . I went in a lift to the 8th floor , and was deposited in front of a pair of swing doors . Inside behold , a dear , familiar scene - tables of censors - so much like our office except that some of them were Wrens ...
... called Princeton House . I went in a lift to the 8th floor , and was deposited in front of a pair of swing doors . Inside behold , a dear , familiar scene - tables of censors - so much like our office except that some of them were Wrens ...
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... called Swinging Sixties made Barbara's novels seem unacceptable , especially to a publishing house like Cape which was beginning to specialise in what were then called ' contemporary ' novels and whose list , as Barbara wryly remarked ...
... called Swinging Sixties made Barbara's novels seem unacceptable , especially to a publishing house like Cape which was beginning to specialise in what were then called ' contemporary ' novels and whose list , as Barbara wryly remarked ...
Contents
List of Illustrations vii | 9 |
Preface by Hazel Holt | xiii |
The Early Life by Hilary Pym I | xviii |
Copyright | |
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