CutureWatch, Review of The Constant Liberal: The Life and Work of Phyllis Bottome

Joan L. Cannon Review of The Constant Liberal: The Life and Work of Phyllis Bottome. There is a dichotomy evident in Phyllis Bottome’s equal determination to do something about injustice and inequity wherever she saw it. Imagine a family that be called dysfunctional mostly because of the self-absorbed and seemingly callous mother who vastly preferred her sister, and a father who was the stereotypical, distant pater familias as the breeding ground for an extraordinarily independent mind.