The wife who survived thrived

Eleanor of Aquitaine: Woman, Queen and Legend ...

To mark the 250th anniversary of her birth, we look into the life of this literary genius…

Efforts to prohibit abortion down the ages

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From Raphael and the mysterious Fornarina to Jan Steen with his flirtatious Margriet and Suzanne Valadon, who broke many hearts until she lost hers to a much younger man, Nick Trend explores five romances that made art history

It’s a truth universally acknowledged more than 250 years later – and we’re as obsessed with the author as ever