Norma Clarke first wrote about Jane Carlyle in Ambitious Heights: Writing, Friendship, Love. She went on to specialize in eighteenth-century literature, writ¬ing about the Bluestockings, other women writers and Oliver Goldsmith. Her most recent book is a family memoir, Not Speaking, to which she is currently writing a sequel.
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