Margaret Forster

This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war—each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition. Here is a twentieth-century woman in close-up, coping with the tragedies and upheavals of women's lives from the First World War to Greenham Common and beyond. This is the edited diary of an individual...

This is the most exciting sort of biography to read, or to write - the myth-dispelling biography which overturns an old story, and does so most convincingly New Statesman This biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, written with reference to Browning correspondence only recently available, argues that the poet was a strong and determined woman largely responsible for her own incarceration...