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“... his best to protect Edith Thompson, and he did his best to preserve and promote his own character. René Weis writes that when Bywaters said goodbye to his mother in the condemned cell, he urged her to buy a copy of Tom Brown’s Schooldays for his younger brother: ‘Let him read it all, mum, but don’t let him miss that part where the Squire tells Tom ...”

“... Old Bailey, did Bywaters and Mrs Thompson, at the end of a rope. Last year my friend and colleague René Weis wrote a book about the Thompson-Bywaters case, a book whose title, Criminal Justice, sufficiently indicates his persuasive view that the trial was a miscarriage of justice and that Edith Thompson was innocent of the charge of conspiracy to murder ...”

“... that is, of the individuals and families, not of Catharism. The ‘story of the last Cathars’ of René Weis’s title was less a continuation than an echo of what had once been. Weis’s is a worm’s eye view, his focus spatially and chronologically tight. The setting is the far South-West, the Pyrenean regions of ...”

“... in her Arden edition of the Sonnets (1997, shortly to be reissued in a revised edition) and René Weis, in Shakespeare Revealed (2007), have continued to deal in biography: Duncan-Jones explores the case for William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, as the young man of the Sonnets; Weis points out such details as the ...”