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Jacqueline Wilson & Alice Rawsthorn

Rosie Boycott, children's author Jacqueline Wilson and museum director Alice Rawsthorn discuss novels by Mrs Gaskell, Edith Wharton and Sylvia Plath. From April 2002.

Rosie Boycott welcomes children's author, Jacqueline Wilson and former director of London's Design Museum, Alice Rawsthorn to discuss favourite novels by Mrs Gaskell, Edith Wharton and Sylvia Plath. From 2002.

North and South by Mrs Gaskell
Publisher: Penguin Classics

The House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Publisher: Faber

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Publisher: Penguin.

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