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was the best received. Its study of a children's nurse was judged "impressive and in its way original, the more so because
Simpson has such a cool, aloof quality and so little resembles the conventional Nanny of fact or fiction." In this period, away from fiction, Sackville-West wrote
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On his death in 1965, Sackville-West bequeathed a large collection of paintings to his friend and former lover
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382:, first published in 1951, a large volume reviewing all significant classical music recordings then available. They soon found the flow of new releases overwhelming and enlisted the aid of two younger critics, Andrew Porter and William Mann. A revised and updated edition of
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