A Little Talk in Downing St
Bee Wilson, 17 November 2016
My Darling Mr Asquith: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Venetia Stanley
by Stefan Buczacki.
Cato and Clarke, 464 pp., £28.99, April 2016,978 0 9934186 0 0 Show More
by Stefan Buczacki.
Cato and Clarke, 464 pp., £28.99, April 2016,
“... meant something different from ‘darling’ and ‘my darling’ was something else again. As Stefan Buczacki parses it, plain ‘darling’ was so commonly used as to be ‘fairly meaningless’ and so if you wanted to show that you truly had feelings for the person you were addressing the ante had to be upped. Adding a possessive was one way of ... ”
