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JUNE 1984 No: 72
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GENERAL REVIEWS Gay Clifford Kay Dick Margaret Drabble Nicci Gerrard Gillian Greenwood Fraser Harrison Christopher Hawtree Christopher Hill Christopher Hitchens John Lahr Simon North Kathy O'Shaughnessy Nicholas Rankin Anthony Sampson Emma Tennant Francis Wheen
REVIEWERS REVIEWED Susan Marling
Rosie Boycott Sheila MacLeod Maggie Gee Carol Rumens Marcella Evaristi AN Wilson
OPERA Eli j ah Moshinsky
DIARY Cosmo Landesman
FICTION Marge Piercy
Women: The Longest Revolution ............................... 21 Ivy Compton-Burnett. .. ... .... .... .. ......... .... ...... .......... .... 2 H G Wells .. .... ....... ........ ....... ... ..... .......... ...... ..... ...... ... 5 How to Suppress Women's Writing .............. ...... ....... . 20 The Empress and the Marahani ....... .. ......... ................ 22 Crisis and Conservation ... ......................... ................ . 16 Virginia Woo If's Diary ... ... ............... ..... .... ... .. ... .......... 4 Women in the Seventeenth Century. ...... ....... .... ..... .... 12 George Lukacs .......................................................... 7 Views and Versions of New York ..... ......... .. ... .... ... ...... 17 Wigan Pier Revisited. ... ..... ..... ........ ........... ... ........... ... 10 Simone de Beauvoir ......... ........ .............. ........ .. ... ..... .. 24 Robert Louis Stevenson.. ...... ...... ......................... .... ... 15 The Unnatural Alliance .............................................. 8 Politics of Sexuality ................ ....... .. ... .... .......... ........ .. 18 Kept Women .. .. .. .. .. .. ... .. .. ... .. ... .. .. .. ... .. .. .. .. .. ... .. .. .. .. ... 14
Kathy Acker........ ...... ... .... .... .... .......... .... ..... .............. 26
Women and Publishing .... .. ... .. .. ...... .. ... .......... .. ....... ... 31 0 H Lawrence and Women ... .. ... .. .. .. .. ... .. ... .. .. ... .. ... .. .. 31 No, I am Not a Woman Writer ............ .. .. .................... 34 Women and Poetry.. .. .. ......................... .. ..... .. .... ........ 37 One Woman and the Theatre.. ...... ... .......................... 36 The Facts of Life.. ...... .. .. ................ .. ...... ... .............. .. .. 38
The Opera Industry...... ......................... ........ ........ ..... 40
Talking Heads .. .. .. ... .. .. .. .. ... ... .. .. .. .. .. ... .. .. .. .. .... ... .. ... .. . 41
Extract from Fly Away Home....... .... ....... .. ........ .... .. .... 42
FICTION REVIEWS Bill Greenwell Neil Berry Wendy Rowland Andy Harris Lucretia Stewart
Joan Chase, Manny Shirazi, Harriet E Wilson ...... .. ....... 44 Finding the Centre : VS Naipaul ............ ........ .. ...... ..... 45 Rosemary Friedman, Joan Lingard...... ...... ............. .. ... 46 James Purdy ..... .. ... ......... .............. ............... .............. 47 8 M Gill, Margaret Yorke, Ruth Dudley Edwards ... .... .. 48
POETRY Christopher Logue
Poems and Fragments : Sappho ......... .. ... ............ .... .... 49
POEMS
Kathleen Jamie, Patricia Pogson , Carol Rumens, Lucy Ann Watt 50 Gill ian Allnutt, Sarah Kirsch, Dorothy Nimmo .. .... .. .. ... .................... .. ..... . .... . .. .... .. ... . . 51
Competition and Crossword........... ... .... ..... ......... ..... ..... ... ... ............. ....... .... .... 56-57 Notes on Contributors ....................... ... .... .... .. ................ ............... .......... .. .. 49 Paperbacks . ... . .. .. .. .. .............. . .. ... . ... ... .... ... ... .. . .............. .. ... . .. .. .... 52
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