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“... palaces were equipped with wheelchairs and specially strengthened beds.) Three years ago, the Walker Gallery in Liverpool brought together in one room four of those giant Eworth/Holbein images (Trinity, Chatsworth, Petworth and their own), which glowered intimidatingly at each other from the four walls. Historians and biographers have never offered ...”

“... indict Cromwell; Bernard, who downplays faction, to find Anne in some measure guilty as charged. Greg Walker talks sensibly when he suggests that what the evidence points to is neither obvious guilt nor a politically motivated coup but a confused ‘and therefore more terrifying’ situation. Behind the remaining uncertainties about Anne Boleyn’s rise ...”

“... these were swept out of fashion in the late 1940s by the bibliographical studies of Kirschbaum and Greg. They demonstrated that A was a typical ‘bad quarto’, based on actors’ reconstruction rather than on authorial copy, and argued that B was superior because based in part on MS copy derived from Marlowe’s own ‘foul papers’. Recently, however, the ...”

“... After the death of Henry James’s father in 1882, his sister-in-law Catharine Walsh, better known as Aunt Kate, burned a large quantity of the family papers, including many letters between Henry James senior and his wife. Henry James himself in later life made a number of bonfires in which he destroyed a great quantity of the letters he had received ...”

“... caused a stir because, as he remarked, it ran counter to assumptions rarely questioned. W.W. Greg had been firm about it in the Prolegomena to his authoritative book, The Editorial Problem in Shakespeare (2nd ed., 1951), where he argued that modernisation seriously misrepresents Elizabethan English when it changes ‘murther’ to ...”

“... On 12 February 1834, Anne Lister recorded in her diary her plans to solemnise her union with Ann Walker: ‘She is to give me a ring & I her one in token of our union.’ Their relationship ‘would be as good as a marriage’, Ann had said. ‘Yes,’ said Anne, ‘quite as good or better.’ Earlier she had broached the subject with her aunt. ‘My aunt ...”