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“... The​ top-down story of 1980s finance is familiar enough, but Amy Edwards offers a different account, arguing that our focus on the political history of the 1980s has come at the expense of understanding economic and social change. All kinds of historical development have been attributed to Thatcher’s assertion of state power, but it has become increasingly clear that Thatcherism was the beneficiary as much as the agent of these changes ...”

“... 1882, none too soon for another Englishwoman who had fallen under Egypt’s exotic spell. Amelia Edwards (Wilkinson calls her ‘Amy’) was already a successful writer when her travel memoir, A Thousand Miles up the Nile, appeared in 1877. Financially independent and well connected, ...”

“... Religious revivals prove temporary. The people of Florence soon wearied of Savonarola. Jonathan Edwards, preaching God’s wrath in the 1730s in my home town of Northampton, Massachusetts, brought his congregation to paroxysms of weeping, despair and repentance, but after the ‘great awakening’ had spread through the region and made him internationally ...”

“... enjoyed being Mrs Lowell – the Mayflower heritage, the bloodline that reached back to Jonathan Edwards and Amy Lowell. Bishop once confessed that she was ‘green with envy’ at Lowell’s pedigree: ‘All you have to do is put down the names!’ Her husband might stray, but Hardwick was confident he would always find ...”