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      A Shavian romance
    
    
      Jill Kitson 
    
    
      27 January 2011    
    
      IN BRIEF | Jill Kitson reviews The Prizefighter and the Playwright    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
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      The most independent woman in the world
    
    
      Jill Kitson 
    
    
      27 October 2010    
    
      Best known as Samuel Johnson’s confidante, Hester Thrale was also a prolific and fearless writer
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      The lost mother
    
    
      Amanda Lohrey 
    
    
      24 April 2009    
    
      Amanda Lohrey reviews Julie Myerson’s controversial part-biography, part-memoir, The Lost Child    
  
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