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“... Not everything Barbauld writes has this power, this precision or this delicate clarity. But Elizabeth Kraft and William McCarthy, who edited this volume, doubt that either her lapses into mediocrity or changing tastes can account for the decline in her reputation, which they blame chiefly on the anti-feminism of the Romantic poets and their ...”

“... pastoral excursions). He also finds a manuscript by a writer of historical fiction called Fellowes Kraft. ‘They were popular once,’ a local librarian says (Crowley has a thing about unfashionable books, including those he’s made up himself). Cunning old Kraft has effectively already written the book that Pierce is ...”

“... tastes might have been (he adored cheese and onion Golden Wonder crisps) he refused to countenance Kraft cheese slices or Cracker Barrel: ‘oblong, granular, fudge-like, a stinging palatal assault’. Much of An Encyclopedia of Myself seems like an attempt to pin down what can be recollected of an obsolete way of life before it disappears entirely. The ...”

“... an admirable inversion, a sort of in-between sex with many good features. Radical feminists like Elizabeth Wolstenholme argued that menstruation is the unnatural result of male sexual appetite and that in a natural, healthy state women, like the lower mammals, would not be constantly available to the opposite sex. In short, every view found its biological ...”

“... first sedan, later modified to become the VW Beetle, an unlikely example of a Nazi concept, the Kraft durch Freude Wagen (‘strength through joy car’), which turned into a countercultural darling of the 1960s. It had another with its Type 2 combi van and another with the Golf, currently on its eighth iteration and still the car Top Gear once called ...”