The Daughters of Cain

Acknowledgements

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Extract from A Cornishman at Oxford© A. L. Rowse;

Extract from The Lesson by Roger McGough, reprinted by permission of Peters Fraser & Dunlop Group Ltd;

Extracts by Cyril Connolly reproduced by kind permission of the Estate of Cyril Connolly c/o Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd, 20 Powis Mews, London W11 1JN, © 1944 Cyril Connolly;

Extract from The Observer© by Oliver Sacks, 9 January 1994;

Faber & Faber Ltd for the extract from New Year Letter by W. H. Auden;

Extract from Oxford by Jan Morris, published by permission of Oxford University Press;

Extract from Back to Methuselah granted by The Society of Authors on behalf of the Bernard Shaw Estate;

Extract from The Pitt Rivers Museum, A Souvenir Guide to the Collections © Pitt Rivers Museum 1993;

Extract from The Pitt Rivers Museum taken from The Memory of War and Children in Exile: Poems 1968–1983, James Fenton, published by Penguin © 1982;

Kate Champkin for the extracts from The Sleeping Life of Aspern Williams by Peter Champkin;

N. F. Simpson for the extract from One-Way Pendulum;

Extract from Berlioz, Romantic and Classic by Ernest Newman published by Dover Publications;

Extract from The Times by Matthew Parris, published 7 March 1994;

Extract from Marriage and Morals by Bertrand Russell, published by permission of Routledge (Unwin Hyman);

Extracts from The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, published by permission of Oxford University Press;

Faber & Faber Ltd for the extract from ‘La Figlia Che Piange’ in Collected Poems 1909–1962 by T. S. Eliot.

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