ON a cold January day in 1817, in the gloomy vestibule outside the women’s yard at Newgate, two turnkeys might have been seen arguing with a lady. The row inside the yard was as great as usual. Even ...
[Atlantic Monthly Press and Little, Brown, $3.50] IT is hard to write the biography of a really good person — perhaps one of the hardest tasks in the world of letters. There is the official, ...