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Avril Horner

Avril Horner
Avril Horner is an Emeritus Professor of English at Kingston University. She is the author or editor of numerous books, most recently Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence, Women and the Gothic with Sue Zlosnik (2016), and Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-95 with Anne Rowe (2015).


The Barbara Comyns Novel That Got Too Real About Poverty, Giving Birth, and Women’s Lives

Avril Horner on the Extraordinary Wildness of “Our Spoons Came from Woolworths”
March 14, 2024  By Avril Horner
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