Nicolson concludes his reflections by noting that “the custom of the manor” believed “to an extent...

A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away...

The violent and crude final pages of the book force us to scrutinise our feelings over...

Such a pity Mary Ann Shaffer is not around to enjoy her celebrity! Shaffer died in...

An Imperialist, a warmonger, blind to what was in front of him, the critics say. A...

If you’re going to mix brains with bosoms, however, you have to be very careful stylistically....

Again, it took an intervention, this time by Moss Hart, to point her in the right...

Detective fiction revels in the possibilities offered by railway travel, but it also expresses some anxiety...

By the end of that lecture, Roget had concluded that one of the causes of “the...

Nature in the form of searing sunlight and raging storms increasingly blotted out the works of...