Eric Christiansen

The love that dared to speak its name

issue 04 October 2003

  • The Friend

    Alan Bray

    Chicago University Press, pp. 380

As you went into the tower door of the church at Marsh Baldon (Oxon), there used to be two wall-tablets. One was to the relations of Sir Christopher Willoughby, who died in 1808, and the other was

To the Memory of Friends,

listed as John Lane, Elizabeth Lane, Phanuel Bacon, Margaret Bacon and Ann Barton.
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