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Kate Summerscale's new history is her most empathetic work to date

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Letters and extracts both new and old

Greer was and is far from perfect—but the Female Eunuch, published fifty years ago, will forever remain part of the canon

Medieval Catholicism wasn’t the enemy of progress, it was its engine