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“... as much as Les Misérables, which she had read before she was nine. She also read Jack London’s Martin Eden, a book about a self-taught writer which she later suspected had given her inspiration for her future life. A schoolteacher called Mr Starkie, recognising an unusual capacity in the girl, lent her The Sorrows of Young Werther. She started keeping a ...”

“... by intakes of amphetamine, caffeine and nicotine, an unholy trinity. Sontag’s younger sister, Judith, had introduced her to cigarettes during a rough patch in her marriage to Rieff in the hope of calming her nerves. ‘She was so miserable, and I wanted to relax her. I taught her how to smoke. That’s the worst thing I ever did.’ In​ 1975, Sontag ...”

“... hair and blue eyes of her Argentinian Jewish mother, Appelfeld’s youthful, good-natured wife, Judith. The Appelfelds appear to have created as calm and harmonious a household as any child could hope to grow up in. During the four years that Aharon and I have been friends, I don’t think I’ve ever visited him at home in Mevasseret Zion without ...”

“... the word ‘women’ only once, in relation to Rousseau, and ‘woman’ not at all. Some men, Judith Drake wrote in 1696, are reluctant to transmit ‘to Posterity, any thing that might shew the Weakness and Illegality of their Title to a Power they still exercise so arbitrarily, and are so fond of’.The first woman in the US to discuss ‘intellectual ...”

“... base during a few months in 2003. In response to the report, I heard Lieutenant Colonel Jeremy Martin say: ‘The army’s a learning organisation. If we have some shortfalls, we try to correct them. We’ve learned how to do that process now.’ I heard a US soldier talk about his photographs of the 12 prisoners he had shot with a machine-gun: ‘I shot ...”

“... others with service vans regularly blocking emergency vehicle access. They had the support of Judith Blakeman, one of the local councillors, in this (they later accused her of collusion with the TMO on other matters). ‘We are not in a position to accuse TMO officers of conniving to mislead the London Fire Service,’ one blog said, ‘and of playing ...”