Looks back to a group of brave women in the later C18th and onwards – at a time when women had no property and no rights: Elizabeth Montagu, who took on Voltaire and won; Catherine Macauley, Hester Thrale and many others.
Bluestockings: The First Women’s Movement
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As entertaining as it is fascinating: it turns out the poet's ancestors were quite an act to follow. (He did!)
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The third volume of his hugely entertaining memoirs, in which he recounts a decade of wrestling with the spirits of Oscar Wilde.
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An incisive post-mortem on the state of the Victorian union, told (with a gossipy thrill) through the lives of five couples - Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh, John Ruskin and Effie Gray, Charl... read more
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Van Gogh was famously driven by books - his letters to Theo allude to 200+ authors. Here is an original study of their relation to his art.