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Wide Sargasso Sea 48 bluestocking 48 Dillane 48 absurdist playwright 48 Alfred de Musset 48 DeVoto 48 Fay Weldon 48 Chips Channon 48 Bovary 48 Alec McCowen 48 Ronald Firbank 48 Havisham 48 Panych 48 Utterson 48 Dickens 48 Humbert Humbert 48 Brindsley 48 Alexander Trocchi 48 Pérez Reverte 48 Muriel Spark 48 Mélisande 48 Martha Gellhorn 48 Stingo 48 Keats Ben Whishaw 48 Sittenfeld 48 Dorothy Sayers 48 Trollope 48 D' Alpuget 48 McGahern 48 Elizabeth von Arnim 48 de Beauvoir 48 Nora Barnacle 48 Terence Rattigan 48 Irène Némirovsky 48 Goldie Semple 48 von Sternberg 48 Fallada 48 John McGahern 48 Edward Bulwer Lytton 48 Howerd 48 Le Morte 48 Lionel Trilling 48 Emily Bronte 48 Squeers 48 Lucy Grealy 48 opera libretto 48 unnamed narrator 48 Huneven 48 Joan Plowright 48 Robbe Grillet 48 Mrs Malaprop 48 Ranyevskaya 48 Ashbery 48 George Eliot Middlemarch 48 Catullus 48 Akhmatova 48 donnish 48 lyrical prose 48 le Carre 48 Marianne Dashwood 48 LeGuin 48 Harold Pinter Betrayal 48 Eleanor Bron 48 Georges Perec 48 Ellen Geer 48 Zinnie Harris 48 Driberg 48 Vivien Merchant 48 Shakespeare 48 Shakespere 48 Fermor 48 Maeterlinck 48 Uhry 48 Otherwise Engaged 48 epigraph 48 Jenny Diski 48 Maxim Gorky 48 Hilaire Belloc 48 Claire Clairmont 48 Shakspere 48 Shake speare 48 Richard Brinsley Sheridan 48 Ibsen Ghosts 48 Mel Gussow 48 Blandings Castle 48 Dreiser 48 JR Ackerley 48 Catherine Cookson 48 Edmund Gosse 48 Mrs Dalloway 48 Jean Anouilh 48 Mallarmé 48 Algernon Swinburne 48 Pessl 48 Malraux 48 Fiennes 48 Franz Werfel 48 Albee 48 MacCaig 48 Marivaux 48 Tom Stoppard 48 Joyce Ulysses 48 Faith Healer 48 spinsterish 48 Alison Steadman 48 Julian Fellowes 48 Branwell 48 Albee Who Afraid 48 Emma Woodhouse 48 Francoise Sagan 48 Ebershoff 48 jeu d' esprit 48 Shelagh Delaney 48 Setterfield 47 nouveau roman 47 Vincent Canby 47 Edward Ferrars 47 Admirable Crichton 47 Moliére 47 Partisan Daughter 47 Judith Krantz 47 Kazantzakis 47 metafiction 47 Simone Weil 47 Doctor Faustus 47 pre Raphaelites 47 Philippe Claudel 47 Michael Dibdin 47 Fran Bed 47 playwright Lillian Hellman 47 Amelia Bullmore 47 Candia McWilliam 47 Ealing comedies 47 imposture 47 tragedians 47 Robert Benchley 47 Damrosch 47 Sarah Siddons 47 Seldes 47 Lucinda Coxon 47 Silas Marner 47 literary pretensions 47 screenwriter Julian Fellowes 47 Rylance 47 Wollstonecraft 47 Mackmin 47 Claudia Shear 47 Marc Camoletti 47 Marcel Proust 47 movingly 47 Lebrecht 47 eponymous heroine 47 Vile Bodies 47 novelist Evelyn Waugh 47 Lindsay Abaire 47 Arnolphe 47 Mitfords 47 Nöel Coward 47 Mary Wollstonecraft 47 Celia Thaxter 47 Dr Faustus 47 descriptive prose 47 Brontes 47 de la Rochefoucauld 47 Arthur Ransome 47 JM Barrie 47 Old Acquaintance 47 Virgil Thomson 47 Susannah Clapp 47 Sedaris 47 Djebar 47 Nathaniel Hawthorne 47 Justine Picardie 47 Giacomo Casanova 47 Gellhorn 47 Blaise Cendrars 47 Nicholas Le Prevost 47 De Bernières 47 Mrs. Erlynne 47 Niall Buggy 47 Le Guin 47 Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway 47 De Bernieres 47 Hugh Whitemore 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Sitwell 47 Ephron 47 Pinteresque 47 William Congreve 47 Bleak House 47 Noel Coward Brief Encounter 47 Meryle Secrest 47 Lawrence Durrell 47 Stephen Mallatratt 47 actress Arkadina 47 Falstaffian 47 Rosamund 47 Nabokov Lolita 47 Witold Gombrowicz 47 Luard 47 wonderfully readable 47 Nick Arnstein 47 Arnold Wesker 47 Patrick Leigh Fermor 47 Bagehot 47 Shainberg 47 Somerset Maugham novel 47 Georgiana Duchess 47 Horton Foote Dividing 47 Strindberg 47 Mrs Beeton 47 Wolitzer 47 dandyism 47 Blithedale Romance 47 Ernest Hemmingway 47 Ned Kynaston 47 Bruce Chatwin 47 Dame Judi 47 St Aubyn 47 Charles Baudelaire 47 lyric poet 47 Brothers Karamazov 47 Lettice 47 Hallie Foote 47 Flannery O'Connor 47 Blixen 47 Ibsen 47 Robert Olen Butler 47 Eliade 46 Professor Bhaer 46 Rory Kinnear 46 Elinor Lipman 46 Dickens novels 46 Lord Dunsany 46 Bluebeard 46 Patricia Highsmith 46 beautifully nuanced 46 Erika Rolfsrud 46 de Maupassant 46 Deborah Moggach 46 de Botton 46 Brecht 46 Tharaud 46 Siegfried Sassoon 46 Kafka Metamorphosis 46 keenly observant 46 Giraudoux 46 Sybille Bedford 46 Noel Coward Hay Fever 46 sonnet 46 Mrs Warren Profession 46 Billy Liar 46 Louis Bayard 46 Paul Mazursky 46 Hattie Morahan 46 Gordimer 46 omniscient narrator 46 Lady Marchmain 46 Giovanni Boccaccio 46 Vivienne Benesch 46 Osbert Lancaster 46 Elizabeth Egloff 46 JM Coetzee Disgrace 46 Jane Austen heroine 46 Oscar Levant 46 Glass Menagerie 46 Daphne Merkin 46 Phyllida Lloyd 46 Phyllis Nagy 46 JG Ballard 46 Fyodor Dostoyevsky 46 Dashwood sisters 46 Rimbaud 46 Georges Feydeau 46 Zoë Wanamaker 46 lexicographer Samuel Johnson 46 Ida Lupino 46 picaresque 46 Gods Behaving Badly 46 Svevo 46 Les Liaisons Dangereuses 46 Director Julian Jarrold 46 Bachardy 46 Blanche du Bois 46 cleareyed 46 Auntie Mame 46 Jodhi May 46 O'Rowe 46 Woollcott 46 Jacobean 46 Andre Dubus 46 Wing Pinero 46 Miéville 46 coup de foudre 46 Disraeli 46 Tuppy 46 Shteyngart 46 Vivian Matalon 46 Camera Lucida 46 Kipling 46 Ranevskaya 46 actressy 46 Jean Giraudoux 46 Daphne Du Maurier 46 Gwendolen 46 Alice Munro 46 Madame Armfeldt 46 Bernard Shaw 46 Morpurgo 46 Ivan Turgenev 46 Alceste 46 stageplay 46 Deaf Sentence 46 Alexandre Dumas 46 Nochlin 46 Akunin 46 John Le Carré 46 Anton Walbrook 46 Tom Lefroy 46 novel Housekeeping 46 billet doux 46 Rosmersholm 46 Booker shortlisted 46 Simon Louvish 46 Mavis Gallant 46 Delves Broughton 46 Alcestis 46 Binchy 46 Chodorov 46 Jeff VanderMeer 46 De Botton 46 Petulia 46 Montaigne 46 Len Deighton 46 du Pré 46 Congreve 46 Francis Wheen 46 Ed Stoppard 46 Collected Poems 46 Guitry 46 Madame de Staël 46 Constance Fenimore Woolson 46 roman clef 46 Darcy Matthew Macfadyen 46 Wineapple 46 Jean Genet 46 Brideshead Revisted 46 De Maupassant 46 Albert Finney 46 sensualist 46 Jean Paul Sartre 46 Quentin Crisp 46 Torday 46 bewitchment 46 IAL Diamond 46 unashamedly sentimental 46 LaChiusa 46 Herzen 46 Pelevin 46 Pnin 46 Clouzot 46 Martin Amis 46 Cate Haste 46 Vansittart 46 faded Southern belle 46 Shadowlands 46 Hannah Yelland 46 dryly humorous 46 Andrew Bovell 46 quasi autobiographical 46 unworldliness 46 García Márquez 46 Catherine Morland 46 Algernon Blackwood 46 Edmund Kean 46 novel Brideshead Revisited 46 Loncraine 46 Dame Beryl Bainbridge 46 Fugard 46 Noel Coward comedy 46 Gannibal 46 Hannie Rayson 46 von Stroheim 46 Imogen Stubbs 46 Téchiné 46 Dostoevski 46 wonderfully nuanced 46 Fanny Kemble 46 Hogarthian 46 De Beauvoir 46 Italo Calvino 46 Mencken 46 Andre Malraux 46 Blithe Spirit 46 Laurie Colwin 46 Jayne Houdyshell 46 Lillian Hellman 46 Patrick Marber 46 prose 46 Galchen 46 Ellroy 46 Penelope Mortimer 46 Lanchester 46 Hensher 46 Truffaut 46 Davenant 46 Kristeva 46 Peter Viertel 46 Marcel Pagnol 46 Pelléas 46 Samantha Soule 46 Janet Suzman 46 Olive Schreiner 46 Lanford Wilson 46 Stefan Zweig 46 Czeslaw Milosz 46 Roger Michell 46 Houellebecq 46 Uncle Vanya 46 Auster 46 ee cummings 46 Martin Guerre 46 Larry Bryggman 46 Anouilh 46 Scholem 46 Jennifer Ehle 46 richly nuanced 46 Malvolio 46 AE Housman 46 Rupert Christiansen 46 rebarbative 45 Madwoman 45 Clarissa Dalloway 45 Banishing Verona 45 Maeve Binchy 45 watercolourist 45 Martin Chuzzlewit 45 Pascal Greggory 45 Joy Davidman 45 RK Narayan 45 Maggenti 45 Jeanette Winterson 45 Hoggart 45 Esther Summerson 45 Orlandersmith 45 Fuseli 45 Passionella 45 Guinevere 45 Kazuo Ishiguro 45 novels 45 Hermann Hesse 45 Moll Flanders 45 Michael Siberry 45 Alexander Herzen 45 authorial 45 Krapp Last Tape 45 François Truffaut 45 Lucien Segura 45 Warchus 45 d' Urbervilles 45 Hepburns 45 teacherly 45 Korder 45 Tractatus 45 Del Tredici 45 Oblomov 45 Georges Simenon 45 Le Divorce 45 Moira Buffini 45 Stasiland 45 William Hazlitt 45 Hedda 45 Isaac Bashevis Singer 45 Tractatus Logico 45 Dud Avocado 45 Porfiry 45 Dame aux 45 van Daan 45 Nigel Farndale 45 Alexander Mackendrick 45 Marguerite Gautier 45 Little Dorrit 45 Rumer Godden 45 Rahila Gupta 45 Dowager Duchess 45 Ross McElwee 45 Joe Calarco 45 Kepesh 45 Terrence Rattigan 45 Esther Freud 45 Gustav von Aschenbach 45 Romola 45 Peploe 45 WF Deedes 45 Nicholas Lezard 45 Viorst 45 Eugenides 45 Edward Hardwicke 45 Feiffer 45 Bourgeois Gentleman 45 playwright Donald Margulies 45 Joyce Grenfell 45 Alan Sillitoe 45 Alberto Moravia 45 Mark Helprin 45 Stanley Kunitz 45 Cardinal Wolsey 45 Wittgenstein 45 humorist PG Wodehouse 45 Kathy Lette 45 Hester Thrale 45 Burne Jones 45 Schopenhauer 45 Charles Bukowski 45 Lionel Bart 45 Mozartean 45 Ionesco 45 Roundabout revival 45 Lawrentian 45 Leonard Rossiter 45 Hyacinth Bucket 45 Groag 45 Laura Odeh 45 Hofmannsthal 45 Donald Corren 45 Mrs. Alving 45 Keats poem 45 shabby genteel 45 Marcel Carne 45 novella 45 Elizabeth Bennet 45 Bennets 45 Mandanipour 45 Susan Sontag 45 Henry Hitchings 45 Shakespearean scholar 45 Marber 45 Benjamin Disraeli 45 Ashmole 45 unreliable narrator 45 proto feminist 45 Manderley 45 Colm Tóibín 45 Sondheim 45 ineffably sad 45 Nussimbaum 45 matchmaker Dolly Levi 45 Shakespeares 45 David Cannadine 45 Blyton 45 Anton Chekhov 45 William Empson 45 Horton Foote 45 Walter Bagehot 45 Prufrock 45 Le Gallienne 45 Scottoline 45 Wordsworth poem 45 Bronson Alcott 45 Hirson 45 historian Simon Schama 45 Martin Crimp 45 Ascherson 45 Pygmalion 45 Helen Vendler 45 Chaucer 45 Daniel Gerroll 45 Rorty 45 Gerroll 45 Djuna Barnes 45 Charlotte Bronte novel 45 Barthelme 45 Noel Streatfeild 45 Dougray 45 Les Liaisons 45 Heidi Schreck 45 Blonde Bombshells 45 compulsive womanizer 45 de Staël 45 Blanche 45 Graeme Blundell 45 novelette 45 Intimate Strangers 45 Francesca Annis 45 LaBute 45 versifier 45 Paul Valéry 45 fictional heroine 45 aging Lothario 45 Thom Gunn 45 Deneuve 45 Raskolnikov 45 Jacques Tati 45 epigrammatic 45 Elizabethan Age 45 Llewelyn Davies 45 novelist EM Forster 45 Smike 45 Landsbury 45 novelist Margaret Drabble 45 Pierre Choderlos de Laclos 45 Gordon Lish 45 prose poems 45 Sagnier 45 Shakespearean 45 Camoletti 45 Anna Mackmin 45 Finnegans Wake 45 Falstaff 45 Steerforth