Summary
[Sam Leith]'s subtext is the way human nature is revealed through our interaction with animals. Hyde Park Gate News, edited by Gill Lowe (Hesperus), is, on the face of it, a compilation of the weekly snippety "newspaper" chronicling family life at 22 Hyde Park Gate during the 1890s, work of the young Virginia Stephen (later Woolf) and her siblings. Yet what lies beneath is a fascinating canine sub-plot.
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A far more important social signifier than IQ these days is LQ - the number of lavatories you have in your house. Two is the middle-class rock bottom; those with "en suite" bathrooms as well as downstairs "cloakrooms" might clock up three. Those who possess se...
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