Scandal, politics and naturalism

BOHEMIANS A BLOOMSBURY INGÉNUE The lives ...

With a strength of character that belied her fragile looks, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun pushed the boundaries of royal portraiture and, after the French Revolution, challenged the loss of female influence via every frill and fold in her work

The Americans are even more prone than the British to the biographical doorstopper as a way in which to honour the lives, minute by minute, of their famous dead. Walter Isaacson and Jon Meacham are am

Muriel Spark’s irrepressible creative drive

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When gossip and rumour led to the trial of two Prussian pastors