Victoria Glendinning

Chapter One When Godwin gave me the beautiful manuscript books to write in, I told him that I feared I should never dare to use them. 'Write about yourself, begin with something you remember and continue from there,' he said, and strode out of the room in his riding boots, leaving the books on...

In the Beginning Having a child is problematic, wrote Leonard Woolf when in his eighties, and childless. It concerns the 'new human being' as much as its parents, since this new human being is born without having given its consent. One should think twice, 'from the point of view of the...