The Life of Kingsley AmisIn this authorised biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but a dominant figure in post-war British writing, as novelist, poet, critic and polemicist. |
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... Hilly at seventeen , 1946 * ; 16 KA , Hilly and her sister Margaret ' Miggy ' Partington ( née Bardwell ) , 1948 * ; 17 KA , Hilly and Mandy , their dog , 1949 * ; 18 Leonard Bardwell ( ' Daddy B ' ) , c.1935-39 ( by kind permission of ...
... Hilly at seventeen , 1946 * ; 16 KA , Hilly and her sister Margaret ' Miggy ' Partington ( née Bardwell ) , 1948 * ; 17 KA , Hilly and Mandy , their dog , 1949 * ; 18 Leonard Bardwell ( ' Daddy B ' ) , c.1935-39 ( by kind permission of ...
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... Hilly , who married him two years later , Lady Kilmarnock . Ali and Hilly had wanted to marry as early as 1971 but Shackleton Bailey had refused to grant Hilly a divorce . On 27 January 1972 Hilly had given birth to Ali's son , Jaime ...
... Hilly , who married him two years later , Lady Kilmarnock . Ali and Hilly had wanted to marry as early as 1971 but Shackleton Bailey had refused to grant Hilly a divorce . On 27 January 1972 Hilly had given birth to Ali's son , Jaime ...
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... Hilly , 613 ; marriage with Hilly ends , 613 Bailey , Paul : Gabriel's Lament , 752 Balcon , Jill ( Mrs C. Day - Lewis ) , 483 , 628-30 , 633-5 , 655 Baldwin , ( Sir ) Peter , 56 , 68 , 75 , 77 , 86 Ballard , J.G. , 523 Balogh , Thomas ...
... Hilly , 613 ; marriage with Hilly ends , 613 Bailey , Paul : Gabriel's Lament , 752 Balcon , Jill ( Mrs C. Day - Lewis ) , 483 , 628-30 , 633-5 , 655 Baldwin , ( Sir ) Peter , 56 , 68 , 75 , 77 , 86 Ballard , J.G. , 523 Balogh , Thomas ...
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