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    Maternal Love

    Feb 01, 2019 3 minutes
    Review by Zoe Colbeck

    David Lough, ed., My Darling Winston: The Letters Between Winston Churchill and His Mother, Pegasus Books, 2018, 598 pages, $35. ISBN 978–1681778822

    This is the first time that the letters between Lady Randolph Churchill and her son Winston have been gathered into a book. Mother and son are said to have corresponded more than a thousand times. David Lough, whose previous book (2015) provided a meticulous examination of Winston Churchill’s

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