“... All three thought Clunks was still potentially dangerous. But only three days after the trial, Dr McCarthy, a consultant psychiatrist at Guy’s, rang Kneesworth and told the doctors there that Clunis was to be immediately transferred to a general psychiatric ward at Guy’s. Dr McCarthy insists that he was told Clunis was ...”

“... proclivity for ‘multiplication and archiving’ to gay taste in New York, which in ‘the bleak McCarthy era paradoxically flourished in the home’. In this ‘domestic avant-gardism’ public signs were ironised in private ways that ‘interrupted the distinction’ between the two spheres. Such customising of images is close to ‘camp’ as defined by ...”

“... hostess Muriel Draper, John Dos Passos, Dorothy Parker, Nancy Mitford, Dawn Powell, even Mary McCarthy, whose rivalrousness towards other intellectual women is legendary. The fact that Murphy seems to have been one of the kindliest people on earth no doubt only magnified her attractiveness. Though lacking scholarly training (like Virginia Woolf, Murphy ...”