SOURCE: "The Greenham Peace Women," in Contemporary Review, Vol. 245, No. 1426, November, 1984, pp. 273-74.

In the following review, Longford favorably reviews On the Perimeter, arguing that Blackwood raises questions about many larger issues.

It is impossible to imagine a more vivid account of the Greenham Peace Women than that supplied [in On the Perimeter] by Lady Caroline Blackwood after intensive study on the spot. The women had been described to her in advance as 'belligerent harpies,' 'a bunch of smelly lesbians,' as 'ragtag and bobtail,' but from the moment she arrived on the scene she was disarmed and one part of her critical faculties suspended. Her compassion was overwhelmingly aroused. 'I found that nothing had prepared me for the desolation of the camps the women inhabited. At first sight, the camps of the Greenham women looked like derelict piles of refuse that had been allowed to...