Ariane Bankes

A husband to die for

The letters of lovely Ida, who died, aged 29, after the birth to her fifth child, are haunted by her husband’s infidelity

  • The Good Bohemian: The Letters of Ida John

    edited by Rebecca John and Michael Holroyd

    Bloomsbury, pp. 318

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