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“... a veil and full make-up if she stepped outside the front door to collect the paper’. Patricia Routledge, just three years older than Bainbridge and also brought up on Merseyside, remembered women like Winnie with the valiantly absurd character of Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping up Appearances. The marriage survived, but it was marred by the conflict that ...”

“... Paris Commune of 1871? In 1880, Londoners could read an English translation of the German scholar Paul Stapfer’s praise of Shakespeare as ‘a bolder and more searching anatomist of the human monster’ than Plutarch; ‘knowing well what the mob is capable of in its intoxication on the day of revolution’, Shakespeare in this scene ‘shows us the amazing ...”

“... to produce a definitive edition of Rochester’s poems was made by Vivian de Sola Pinto for Routledge and Kegan Paul in 1953. In 1968 David Vieth produced an edition of 76 poems plus eight more listed as ‘Possibly by Rochester’; 75 of his attributions and usually his choices of copy-text were accepted by Keith ...”

“... So were Horace Live-right, the publisher, Frederick Allen of Harper Brothers, and Van Vechten. Paul Kellog, editor of the Survey Graphic, was ‘so impressed that night with the potential of the black literary movement’ that he decided to devote an entire issue to black literature and art the following year, with Locke as guest editor. It was this issue ...”

“... is something to this. If we were all to engage one another all the time in the spirit of what Paul Ricoeur called – thinking of Freud, Marx and Nietzsche – the ‘hermeneutics of suspicion’, we would drive one another quite literally mad. Social life would become impossible. The contemporary culture war gives us a glimpse of this ...”

“... was “nearly” taken in London, I forget by whom’ (a footnote informs us that Herbert Read at Routledge read the novel with ‘considerable bewilderment’ and found it ‘wild and unintelligible’). Having been through the same interminable round of rejections with Murphy in the 1930s, Beckett seems resigned to disappointment and even claims to have ...”