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- "The English Country House" (1974)
- "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall af Anne Brontë" (1981)
- "The Worried Artist:A Short History of Artists' Anxieties" (1991)
- "The Quest for Modernity:The Battle of the Books from Doomsday to the Digital Age" (1994)
- "The Letters of Desmond Morse-Boycott" (2003)
- "An Extraordinary Literary Friendship:The Correspondence of Desmond Morse-Boycott with Barbara Pym" (2008)