“... by or about the group. Clive Bell went to the Paris exhibitions, there were stories by David Garnett, features on Duncan Grant, and Woolf wrote five pieces, including one about Sir Walter Raleigh. Vogue still owed something to the society magazine that was the earliest incarnation of the American edition, and the first frontispiece went to Eileen ...”

“... the Goncourts weren’t helping much either. Apart from reprising Diderot’s great line on the Boucher portraits – ‘they have everything, Monsieur, but the truth’ – the brothers seemed strangely dull: more feeble and syphilitic than I remembered.Perhaps it was true: I was tiring of the 18th century. For twenty years it had been my academic meal ...”