“... forwards’, the ‘freely mobile ego’. But Jacqueline, from her collaboration with Juliet Mitchell on Feminine Sexuality (1982) onwards, clearly found in feminism a hospitable coign of vantage, whereas Gillian did not. ‘Feminism never offered me any help,’ she wrote, with tremulous bravado, in Love’s Work. ‘For it fails to address ...”

“... the Green Knight. At Oxford they tackle In Memoriam. O-Levellers could be confronting Romeo and Juliet and A-Levellers the poems of Herbert. The central question all of them ask of a work is what it means, and answering this question requires practice, effort, and the knowledge of more than the book alone. The last point is oddly controversial. Facts about ...”

“... recover the hidden sentiments I had almost lost within myself.’ Neruda was translating Romeo and Juliet into Spanish at more or less the same time as he was writing Memoirs. ‘I was always quick to forget,’ he writes in a poem in Isla Negra; this is not a refutation of the great ‘sonata’ from Residencia – ‘No hay olvido’ (‘There’s No ...”

“... in Lans-en-Vercors, dining at La Coupole or Le Bar du Dôme with Giacometti and Beckett and Joan Mitchell and Jean-Paul Riopelle. Harry and Me interleaves Saint Phalle’s account with Mathews’s warm ripostes. It recalls early financial precarity and delicious complicity (he was ‘an ardent feminist’ who shared the housework) and describes antics ...”

“... attempt to find ‘better origin myths’ for an otherwise chauvinist discourse. Better still was Juliet Mitchell’s critique of feminists who sought inspiration from some primitive matriarchy that might be restored if only the right historical account of its demise could be found. The point, as Mitchell saw it, was ...”

“... The ‘plebgate’ row of 2012 – when Downing Street protection officers accused Andrew Mitchell, the Tory chief whip, of swearing and calling them ‘plebs’ – contributed to this feeling. CCTV footage cast doubt on the officers’ account, while a man claiming to be an ordinary witness turned out to be a serving officer who wasn’t anywhere ...”