Frances Wilson
Articles by frances wilson
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Books
Women on the verge
- 14 February 2008
Mad, Bad and Sad: a History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present
Lisa Appignanesi Virago, 560pp, £20
Books
Everybody in the house
- 04 October 2007
Bright Young People: the Rise and Fall of a Generation, 1918 - 1940
D J Taylor Chatto & Windus, 336pp, £20
Books
Man of mystery
- 13 September 2007
Conan Doyle: the Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes
Andrew Lycett Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 432pp, £20
Ideas
Victorian values
- 11 September 2006
The Good Old Days: crime, murder and mayhem in Victorian London
Gilda O'Neill Viking, 286pp, £16.99
ISBN 0670915459
Politics
Dizzy the dandy
- 03 July 2006
The Politics of Pleasure: a portrait of Benjamin Disraeli
William Kuhn Free Press, 402pp, £20
ISBN 0743256875
Books
A rake's progress
- 06 March 2006
John Wilkes: the scandalous father of civil liberty
Arthur H Cash Yale University Press, 482pp, £20
ISBN 0300108710
Books
Commentary
- 23 January 2006
Frances Wilson, a judge for this year's Whitbread, argues that the really scandalous thing about literary prizes is that they insist on rewarding writers for virtue
