“... corners. Even the essays in the exhibition catalogue (Hayward, £22.99) are collections of a kind: Marina Warner and Brian Dillon, the show’s curator, have both written magpie pieces that list facts about collecting and find disparate ways of talking about the idea of curiosity. Part of the pleasure of the cabinet of curiosities is, of course, that ...”

“... just as significant as truth. Far more grimly, for there can be no evidence of playfulness here, Marina Warner concerns herself with Laclos’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1782), in which, by a ‘shift from a prevailing male dynamic to a female one’, Mme de Merteuil, the fearsome manipulator, dominates the Vicomte de Valmont, the mere rake. ‘Every ...”

“... would have thought they would have come themselves to Santander,’ Carrington said to Marina Warner in 1987. Would she have liked it if they had? After getting out of the asylum, she was taken to Madrid in the care of one of her father’s colleagues, who gave her a choice: either she become his lover, or be sent to South Africa, as her ...”

“... of his own head. In this book, Grass manages to do that very well. By comparison with Headbirths, Marina Warner’s is a novel which could have been put together with a left-over set of Forster’s aspects. The story is that of a skating party from a university town (Cambridge, unnamed) along the ‘Floe’ to an anthropology don’s house, where things ...”

“... All​ the things I am attracted to are just about to disappear,’ Tacita Dean once told Marina Warner. Dean’s three almost simultaneous new shows – at the Royal Academy, the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery – are full of transient things: paintings of an ant moving across a rock; images of clouds, of decaying fruit; portraits on film of people who won’t be around much longer, or who have already died ...”

“... Paul Read was regretting that Madonna and not the Virgin Mary was a role model for the young, and Marina Warner saying that ‘the reality her myth describes is over.’ That, surely, is the basic reason why Stanley Spencer’s religious paintings are mostly ridiculous rather than moving. ‘What ho, Giotto!’ he cried when he had the commission to ...”

“... excluded from the budding groves of academe. I have always thought that feminist historians like Marina Warner are misguided to assume that a doctrine and practice of celibacy was the same thing as a prejudice against women; but I must concede that, in this case, one did entail the other. Unlike Heloise, Abelard went along with the monastic ideology. In ...”

“... rather than others? What is the point in interviewing Margaret Drabble, Victoria Glendinning and Marina Warner, but failing to discuss such matters? Yet for all the evident faults and the egregious condescension of this book, it does almost despite itself have some value. The women interviewed confirm yet again that female achievement is usually the ...”

“... his curiosity and defence of the Theorists. He had such a quizzical, witty expressive face, too. ...”

“... waded into my bloody chamber?’ The best essays are by Laura Mulvey (on the cinematic in Carter), Marina Warner (an exemplary study of sexual ambiguity in Carter’s characters) and Hermione Lee. Much of the book, in the current manner of post-structuralist theory, appears a terrified unwillingness to evaluate. Armstrong’s description of Carter, quoted ...”

“... was set at whole life. In 1997, Jack Straw undertook a further review of her sentence – which Marina Warner wrote about in this paper (1 January 1998). The Labour Home Secretary confirmed that a whole life tariff (life meaning life) was a suitable sentence in Hindley’s case. In February and March this year, Hindley applied in the House of Lords for ...”

“... against what she saw as over-protective parents. Thirty years later, she writes of taking to task Marina Warner, a guest in Oakland, for keeping what seems to me an entirely sensible watchful eye on her son: ‘oh – the pitfalls of adoring mumhood’, she writes, when Warner tries to make sure she knows exactly where ...”

“... views onto her habits of thought. They whisper something to the viewer; something like, as Marina Warner has put it, ‘This is what I know; this is what you – we – choose not to see.’This summer a small exhibition of Rego’s prints was held at the Cristea Roberts gallery to coincide with the Tate show. It contained a few prints that were ...”

“... for their talent contest in 1970 and skived off for the lunch in London, where she sat between Marina Warner (in yellow satin hotpants and a heart-shaped bib) and Lord Snowdon. She won and managed not to get expelled, but was in trouble with the family for turning her wicked stepmother into a ‘beautiful milkmaid’ in her winning essay. ‘You went ...”

“... for Vietnam with a child in tow, in order to explore ‘a sort of obsession’; and, for a time, Marina Warner, who recounts how she stood on the road in Vietnam, after witnessing some unspeakable thing, ‘exposing myself when I didn’t need to ... it was some sort of expiation.’ For women journalists with radical commitments, the choices have been ...”