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“... at the production, and the fate, of the women Surrealists, recently redeemed by the art historian Whitney Chadwick in her penetrating study, Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement (1985), one sees why Simone de Beauvoir had to write what and when she did. The French intellectual and artistic world, the Surrealists above all, was particularly rejecting ...”

“... Reading the passionate letters of Janácek and Pirandello, two elderly men writing to two much younger women, one is led to wonder whether relationships quite like this would be possible today – even assuming the telephone did not exist and letters were still written. The Twenties were not so extremely long ago, not a period of fans and fainting fits and cabriolets ...”