Alphabet of Suffering

  • Eleanor Bailey
    Idioglossia. Random House
  • Lucy Bending
    The Representation of Bodily Pain in Late Nineteenth-Century English Culture. Oxford University Press
Reviewed by Rachel Poliquin
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This review “Alphabet of Suffering” originally appeared in Travel. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 174 (Autumn 2002): 117-119.

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