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Which was a feeling I had while watching The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton, also on BBC4 (Monday). This was largely played for laughs. Isabella Beeton was the lovely, deliciously winsome Anna Madeley. Her main secret was that, rather than being the plump middle-aged hausfrau we vaguely associate with her great book, she was 21 when she started on Household Management, mainly to get her feckless husband out of debt. The second secret was that she scarcely had a household to manage.
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At the Cheltenham Festival last week, Professor John Sutherland was on a panel discussing Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea -- which on this occasion won the mock-Booker prize for 1966, defeating The Jewel in the Crown, The Comedians and The Magus. ...
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