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'Superb-so heartbreaking that in comparison Jane Eyre seems to have got off lightly' Anita Brookner, ...
Mary McCarthy was a well-known novelist, critic, journalist and memoirist. She was born in Seattle, of mixed Catholic, Protestant and Jewish descent. She died in October 1989.
'Superb-so heartbreaking that in comparison Jane Eyre seems to have got off lightly' Anita Brookner, Spectator