Gillian Tindall

RL 's mother, Alice Marie (Davis) Lehmann , was from New England (of true blue Puritan Mayflower stock) and a graduate of Radcliffe College . She studied history and, according to biographer...

For the London Review of Books, PB dealt with books by women both in her first review (on 8 November 1979, one month before the magazine first carried one of her poems), where she...

Growing up the daughter of journalist parents, Mary Waddington (later MS ) was a journalist in her play as a small child. She told her dolls, I have some copy to write now. Her first...