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The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.

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Storm Jameson
Age: 95 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 8
Died: 1986
Died: September 30
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Whitby
North Yorkshire
Margaret Storm Jameson
Margaret Ethel Storm Jameson
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Servant
Critics
Literature
Law
Hankering
Rather
Irrepressible

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