Margaret Drabble: A Reader's Guide.

Pp. 174. London: Vision; New York: St Martin's Press, 1991. 11.95[pounds].

SHOULD you happen to be a Cambridge English graduate, preferably at Newnham in the nineteen-fifties or sixties, this book may appeal to you. This remark might be misperceived as a piece of embittered cultural sniping from a reviewer whose experiences reading English at Oxford in the later nineteen-sixties excluded her from the creative hotbed of Newnham, which, we are told, spawned ~Hilary Bailey, A. S. Byatt, Elaine Feinstein, Sue Limb, Jessica Mann and Iris Murdoch (graduate student)'. Rather, the conviction that an insider's acquaintance with the Cambridge English school, the influence of …