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“... but they were smart and talented, as were the painters associated with the gallery: William de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston, Mark Rothko, Helen Frankenthaler, Jane Freilicher, Grace Hartigan, Alfred Leslie, Larry Rivers, Norman Bluhm and Fairfield Porter. It all made for a vigorous little scene, a fair bit of it played out at the ...”

“... the cook, Sarah Reece, and two teenage housemaids, Emily Lunmir and Ethel Bailey. The eldest son, William, must have already moved out. In his will, my great-great-grandfather ‘desired it to be known that it was by the consent of his eldest son, William Corbett Roberts, who is already well provided for, that nothing ...”

“... married Thackeray’s more eligible father, who already had a daughter by his Indian concubine. William Makepeace, the only child, was born the following year, and the year after that, Carmichael-Smyth walked unexpectedly into Mrs Thackeray’s drawing-room. Two years after this reunion, Thackeray’s father died of a real fever. As soon as she was out of ...”

“... falling into contempt with the people.’ Taxes were high and times were bad, and journalists like William Cobbett were radicalising popular opinion by lambasting ‘Old Corruption’. Parliament, Cobbett stormed, was ruining the nation it no longer represented. An oligarchy of aristocrats and financiers, having hijacked the Commons by means of electoral ...”

“... is cool in the circumstances. Omissions? This is a less fair game, but I feel the want of William Empson’s dedication of The Structure of Complex Words:                  For            I.A. RICHARDS     Who is the source of all ideas in this book, even the minor ones arrived       at by disagreeing with him ...”

“... of characters in Balzac: another episode of Through the Looking-Glass features the novelist Julia Corbett, one of the two heroines of Byatt’s 1967 novel, The Game.) Though A Whistling Woman seems uneasy about some of the more volatile energies released in the 1960s, it also draws on the protean impulses of the time to intimate new possibilities for its ...”