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Slightly Foxed Issue 41
  • ISBN: 9781906562625
  • Pages: 96
  • Dimensions: 210 x 148mm
  • Illustrations: B/W
  • Publication date: 1 March 2014
  • Producer: Smith Settle
  • Cover artist: James Weston Lewis, ‘Bluebells’
  • ISSN: 1742-5794
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Slightly Foxed Issue 41

‘Cellmates’

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The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine.

In this issue

Richard Mabey finds a cellmate • Anne Boston falls for Carrington • Anthony Gardner salutes a remarkable soldier • Jane Ridley curtseys to a queen • David Gilmour visits a francophile’s England • Daisy Hay meets a Mitford • Patrick Welland raises a glass to Flann O’Brien • Galen O’Hanlon paddles with ducks . . .


Cellmates • RICHARD MABEY

Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

The Strength of the Gentle • ANTHONY GARDNER

John Hackett, I Was a Stranger

Git a Hoss! • DAVID RAIN

Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons

Never a Belonger • DAVID GILMOUR

On the works of Richard Cobb

A Reluctant Hero • AMANDA THEUNISSEN

Ronald Welch, Captain of Foot

Marching with the Trottas • ARIANE BANKES

Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March

The Purple Moth • JANE RIDLEY

James Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary

Through the Wardrobe • LOMAX ALLWOOD

On the illustrations of Pauline Diana Baynes

A Quare One • PATRICK WELLAND

On the novels of Flann O’Brien

Taking a Gander • GALEN O’HANLON

Dillon Ripley, A Paddling of Ducks

The War of Aircraftwoman 2146391 • DON WATSON

Mary Lee Settle, All the Brave Promises

Well Earthed • ANTHONY LONGDEN

S. L. Bensusan, Village Idylls; A Marshland Omnibus

Honourable Rebel • DAISY HAY

Jessica Mitford, Hons and Rebels

A Certain Idea of France • HENRY JEFFREYS

Allan Massie, A Question of Loyalties

Catlike Carrington • ANNE BOSTON

On The Art of Dora Carrington

What Became of Waring • MICHAEL BARBER

Anthony Powell, What’s Become of Waring

A Dickens of a Project • LAURA FREEMAN

On the works of Charles Dickens


About Slightly Foxed

The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine. Read more about Slightly Foxed.



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Cellmates

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The Strength of the Gentle

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Git a Hoss!

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Never a Belonger

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Through the Wardrobe

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A Quare One

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Taking a Gander

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A Certain Idea of France

In 2011 a French popular novelist called Alexandre Jardine was vilified in both Le Figaro and Le Monde for writing that his grandfather was complicit in the crimes of the Vichy regime. Over seventy...

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Catlike Carrington

On New Year’s Day 1917 Carrington noted in her diary that her portrait of Lytton Strachey was finished; knowing her achievement, she hugged it to herself. ‘I should like to go on always painting...

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What Became of Waring

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A Dickens of a Project

At midnight on New Year’s Eve 2012, as fireworks burst over Hyde Park, I was propped up in bed with a paperback feeling a terrific failure. The book was Charles Dickens’s Barnaby Rudge. I was 459...

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