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“... was no direct water supply to the last house on Back Street Place.Rebecca wanted her daughter Rose to have a different life and sent her to Cardiff to apprentice to a tailor. In 1886, at the age of nineteen, Rose married Henry Williams, a 37-year-old upholsterer, and soon afterwards gave birth to a ...”

“... Lang Leav, Nayyirah Waheed, Amanda Lovelace and Charly Cox (‘social media’s answer to Carol Ann Duffy’, the blurbs say of she must be mad). There are men too, including Atticus (not his real name), a mysterious masked Canadian and self-described lover of ‘the ocean, the desert, whiskey and playing with words’ who writes about women in a way that ...”

“... came out and had last been in proximity to book-world fame in the 1970s, when his then wife, Ann Beattie, was routinely described as the voice of their generation on the strength of the stories she was publishing in the New Yorker. (It was Gates who suggested calling her first novel, published in 1976, Chilly Scenes of Winter, a title borrowed – like ...”

“... as though they meant it to matter ... Samuel Beckett (of course), John Berger, Christine Brooke-Rose, Brigid Brophy, Anthony Burgess, Alan Burns, Angela Carter, Eva Figes, Giles Gordon, Wilson Harris, Rayner Heppenstall, even hasty, muddled Robert Nye, Ann Quin, Penelope Shuttle, Alan Sillitoe (for his last book only. Raw ...”

“... Our own Home Secretary endorsed this line after his son’s arrest for a drug offence in 1997. Ann ‘zero-tolerance’ Widdecombe is even more opposed to it (except, it seems, when used by Shadow Cabinet colleagues and other supposedly ‘educated, articulate people’). Anslinger was lying. In The Science of Marijuana, Leslie Iversen has produced the ...”

“... downward as she talked.’ Admirers often compared her with a bowl of ripe peaches, an orchid or a rose. Dadie Rylands, a friend for most of her life, knew better. She was more like ‘a great eiderdown of rose petals’, he wrote, suffocating the men she loved. When Wogan was ill she looked after him with such relentless ...”

“... and unpublic. But a great many women of the 18th century, including some like Mary Collier and Ann Yearsley who were poor, were heard of many miles from home. Roger Lonsdale gives us a collection of 95 poets (including a fair sprinkling of the inevitable ‘Anonymous’). With each new writer he offers densely packed informative headnotes. The biographies ...”

“... walls – all exactly, exactly, the same. Even the ornate US mailbox at the bottom of a chute that rose 12 stories, which had enchanted me as a child, was the same, as was the tiny, white elevator button, the rattling oak-panelled elevator and the different but equally incompetent elevator man. In a mixture of German and English, for he spoke Russian and ...”

“... the Bridge and All My Sons, Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie, Streetcar, Camino Real and The Rose Tattoo, but if Osborne shows any American influence it is from the earlier generation of O’Neill, or even Odets. There were intermittently fine productions on the London stage: ‘revivals’ of classics at the Old Vic, and under the not always benign ...”

“... in which canonical figures appear in Part One (including the working-class Scottish writer Carol Ann Duffy) and Part Two offers ‘Poems from Other Cultures and Traditions’ (including several coloured writers, but also, confusingly, the working-class Scot Tom Leonard). Seamus Heaney – who isn’t British and doesn’t live in Britain – is in Part ...”

“... pieces of naughtiness and in Craig Raine’s image of an excited watering-can and a peculiar rose – and this is because, more than anything, the blue verse tradition is about being in control – of your verse-form as well as your feelings. There is no room in this tradition for a poem about sexual compulsion such as Ted Hughes’s ‘A Childish ...”

“... with Mr Hearst, who turned me out of Bed, and locked me out of the room naked ... My great Aunt Ann Woodforde died of the small-pox at Bicester this morning ... The Bursars gave us Scholars 8 Bottles of Port Wine to drink at dinner time ... Went and play’d Crikett being the first time of our Clubb’s playing ... Hearst, Bell and myself, being in ...”

“... in 1771. Among his contemporaries, only Frances Burney was at the height of her powers. Neither Ann Radcliffe, whose Gothic romances would soon enjoy immense popularity, nor the younger radical novelists such as Godwin, Wollstonecraft and Holcroft – with whom Bage is most commonly linked – had yet begun to publish. In these circumstances, Bage’s ...”

“... too: in their clothes, in their hair – everywhere. A national emblem perhaps, like the yellow rose of Texas? No, senor. A flowery exorcism against the evil eye: a Caribbean custom. A cumbia band was in full swing throughout the gala. The cumbia is a poor Colombian version of the Manhattan salsa, more gravy than saucy. A Spanish writer commented in ...”

“... dyer who had moved to LA and rebranded as a celebrity hairdresser, marrying the actress Lesley Ann Warren and sleeping his way around Beverly Hills. He had been telling people for years that he cut Streisand’s hair, but they met for the first time when she wanted a short wig in For Pete’s Sake (1974). Streisand, forever running late, kept him waiting ...”