gardens of the working classes Nineteenth-century novels and poetry supplied Margaret Willes with some fascinating details about the resourcefulness of the working-class gardener
the english fear of flats Philippa Lewis on the architectural history of flat-dwelling in England, and the nation’s reluctance to embrace the concept
Telling stories Michael Holroyd reflects on the narrative skills shared by the novelist and the biographer
catalogues of private art collectors The Library’s selection of handsome early volumes is admired by Michael Savage
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