A tale which holdeth children from play & old men from the chimney corner --Sir Philip Sidney In the Valhalla of English literature Anne Manning is sure of a little and safe place. Her studies of great men, in which her imagination fills in the hiatus which history has left, are not only literature in themselves, but they are a service to literature: it is quite conceivable that the ordinary reader with no very keen _flair_ for poetry will realise John Milton and appraise him more highly, having read _Mary Powell_ and its sequel, _Deborah's Diary_, than having read _Paradise Lost_. In _The Household of Sir Thomas More_ she had for hero one of the most charming, whimsical, lovable,…
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