“... had no children to complicate the relationship.’ In The Mild Murderer (1977), Tom Cullen writes: ‘Belle had not been long married before it became necessary to remove her ovaries … Even if they had adopted a child it might have made a difference, but they appeared set against this course.’ Not ‘they’, surely. Crippen was the one who ...”

“... and drop unhurt. I saw it done myself but by a man of rather athletic build.’Joyce’s friend John Francis Byrne, on whom he based the character of Cranly in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, lived at 7 Eccles Street from 1908 to 1910. ‘In 1909, when Joyce was visiting Dublin,’ we are told on page 1144 of the new volume of annotations to ...”

“... difficult relationships between the privatised companies will add considerably to the problems. John Uff, the chairman of the Southall Inquiry, says that the privatised rail industry is unable to deal effectively with inter-company issues, and that research and development projects open lines of conflict between the commercial interests of different parties ...”