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“... analysis still has a great deal to offer. What he does for medieval psychology and ethics, Katherine Harvey does for health and medicine. She does not recommend that we go back to quarterly bloodletting or make ointments from cows’ dung, but she does show that, stereotypes aside, medieval people took hygiene seriously and anticipated our views ...”

“... began to produce an unceasing flood of books, pamphlets, poems and journalism, having realised, in Katherine Frank’s words, that experience was an eminently saleable commodity. On one calculation he scribbled two and a half million words in a period of six years. One of his pamphlets, a satirical onslaught on High Church Toryism, forced him into hiding with ...”

“... are jumble-sale ‘finds’, or luxury items in the ‘pauperist’ style bought off the peg at Harvey Nicks? In Fashion and Its Social Agendas, Diana Crane, who teaches sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, suggests that clothing is about the ‘social construction of identity’, and traces its economic, class and consumer implications in ...”

“... with masculinity’. She was to discover women writers she could admire: Sarah Orne Jewett, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf. O’Brien examines the disguises Cather adopted in an effort to hide herself under an appropriate structure. There is one step into interpretation beyond the many valuable ones O’Brien has taken. It seems to me that, in many ...”

“... the 1920s as an anti-Soviet exile in the US, working for the hugely successful corporate architect Harvey Wiley Corbett designing neo-Russian villas for exiles on Long Island and designing the Royal Pines Hotel in New Jersey, which, as Cohen mentions, served as Al Capone’s headquarters. Meanwhile he was drawing ideal cities with moving skywalks above mobile ...”

“... does indeed have a savage edge, whether in ‘An Influx of Poets’ or in her memoir of Lee Harvey Oswald’s mother A Mother in History. What saves her from our horrified recoil is the sense we get from her writing of the myth of the artist as an American woman up against family, marriage and society. Neither of these biographies on its own manages to ...”

“... figures and episodes on which she based characters and events; the fact that she liked to stay at Harvey Girls hotels. (It strikes me that Willa Cather/Harvey Girls erotica is an untapped market.) He includes a wide array of Native, Mexican and New Mexican perspectives, as well as having a deep base of knowledge about the ...”

“... at the New Age. This led to his meeting Aldous Huxley, the Sitwells, John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield, Ezra Pound and other writers including the young Slovene Janko Lavrin, with whom Edwin would later edit the European Quarterly. Willa became headmistress of a part-time vocational school offering classes to young female employees of West End ...”

“... Others are more confident still. Shakespeare’s recent biographers Park Honan and Katherine Duncan-Jones take it for granted that the play was his. Andrew Gurr, in editing Richard II, ‘assumes’ that it was, and the same assumption is made by the editors of the Oxford Complete Works of Shakespeare and the editor of the new Arden edition of ...”

“... published in newspapers and magazines. She had worked ‘in service’, including as a maid to Katherine Mansfield’s grandmother. Frame’s father was a railway worker of Scottish origin, who fished, did embroidery and bagpiped the children to sleep. There were five children, and Janet came in the middle, the survivor of a pair of twins. The Frames owned ...”