“... feeling, life’s only, but indelible, trace’ – would be much more appropriate in the case of Richardson or Diderot. Actually, it’s a pretty dubious claim applied to anyone other than the lachrymose protagonist of an 18th-century novel. This affinity with the heroines of sentimental fiction pays off when Lewis arrives in the 1700s. After the Hanoverian ...”

“... anywhere outside Barnsley. United Artists finally agreed to back it, in a deal brokered by Tony Richardson, whose Woodfall Films had been responsible for New Wave films such as A Taste of Honey (1961) and The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1962). Obliged to show Kes to Eric Pleskow, a United Artists executive who happened to be in London, Garnett ...”

“... themselves … as reading such European writers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, Germaine de Staël and Scott, but denigrated or avoided naming their actual competition: such bestselling sentimental novelists as Kotzebue, de Genlis, Lafontaine and Sophie Cottin.’ Hoogenboom applies to Russia an argument made by ...”

“... civil engineering achievements. Look at anything deriving from the key icon of the era, Margaret Thatcher, hard hat perched on hard hair, giving her blessing to Paul Reichmann, as they gloat over a scale-model of the future city of glass. My spirits were high. The Dome (or ‘Doom’, as displaced locals spoke of it) was a Bunyanesque target, a ...”

“... Europe to Greece. Tony mentions in the poem her absent friends: George Devine, Ron Eyre, Tony Richardson, John and John (Dexter and Osborne), and at the conclusion a cake is brought in and Jocelyn is crowned with laurels. It could be thought pretentious but since Jocelyn is so far from pretentious it seems both fitting and moving.I sit on a sofa with Alan ...”