Against hope

I t takes all sorts. Some readers, for ...

There are many reasons that an artist’s ambitions can be thwarted, including the decision to become a teacher. Later this month, an exhibition will shine a light on talent obscured by a career in the classroom

BOHEMIANS A BLOOMSBURY INGÉNUE The lives ...

Heirs and Graces: A History of the Modern ...

Muriel Spark’s irrepressible creative drive

When COUNTRY LIFE’s Henry Avray Tipping spotted a 17th-century four poster languishing in a Herefordshire attic in 1911, he set off a chain of events that saw the bed leave its ancestral home and land at The Met in New York