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8 April 2017

9:00 AM

8 April 2017

9:00 AM

The name Maud Russell creeps almost apologetically into a few 20th-century diaries such as those of her friend Violet Bonham Carter. Generally, she keeps her head below the parapet — not a bad place for a diarist, since it allows her to observe without being noticed.

She is certainly worth knowing about.

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