I mentioned that I was reading this the other day, having been inspired to do so by her intriguing obituary last month.

It's a wonderful but in many ways frustrating and tantalising book, because it is just snippets from her long and extraordinary life. What there is, is amazing and vivid - a memoir of her childhood, essays on her friends W. H. ( Read more... )

I've just started reading Margaret Gardiner's A Scatter of Memories. It begins with the transcript of a conversation between her, Robert Young and Ann Scott (from the group around Free Association Books, the publisher).

Gardiner talks about her experience of psychoanalysis:
I was always hoping for something nice and dramatic, a sort of breakthrough ( Read more... )

From today's incoming email:
Of course you are entirely right, we must have women on the cover who are included in the book - it would be entirely ridiculous not to - I do apologise.

Mmmm: I love the taste of self-righteous vindication in the morning!

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Obit of an interesting woman in today's Guardian - yet one more example of the way women don't ( Read more... )