Hate mail : LETTER

Lindsay Phipps
Saturday 18 February 1995 00:02 GMT
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Why all this correspondence about misogyny and Anthony Powell? It's perfectly obvious; Powell didn't like Hodgkin because she was left- wing and so he plucked a nasty word out of his dictionary to describe her. It wasn't a general attack on women, but on one woman's politics.

lindsay phipps

Birmingham

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