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“... had lived by writing – and after 1758 the words came just as abundantly. At a shrewd estimate, Roger Pearson calculates in his sprightly and thoroughly engaging biography, some fifteen million words flowed from Voltaire’s pen. The critical edition currently being published by Oxford’s Voltaire Foundation is scheduled to contain 85 volumes. As well ...”

“... could see the potential ironies in all this, but couldn’t at this point find the prose for them. Roger Pearson’s very good book is a study of Stendhal’s relations with his readers, or more precisely, of the kind of invitations his novels offer to his readers. ‘A novel is a mirror which one carries along a road,’ Stendhal famously said, situating ...”

“... for New Society, a violence pundit. He got everything that was coming to him: he was played by Roger Daltrey. But the real clincher, as far as Reg was concerned, came with the last rites for his mother Violet. ‘Last but not least, when he attended my mother’s funeral in the role of reporter, he did not wear a tie. He was never a true villain.’ The ...”

“... There were already good biographies of Shaw, notably those of Frank Harris and Hesketh Pearson, both of whom knew Shaw and had the benefit of his energetic interventions. Pearson in particular will not be easily supplanted. Nevertheless the archives of the world are full of Shaviana inaccessible before his death, and because there had not been a serious attempt since 1956 – the centenary year – the Shaw Estate sensibly decided that the time had come for a new biography, and invited Mr Holroyd to write it ...”

“... seven-volume edition of Byron’s Poems has concluded with a magnificent index compiled by Carol Pearson. As columns to browse in, these are in the same league as the DNB or OED. Old Romantic hands might be tempted to look up ‘Rousseau’ or ‘Wordsworth’, but to test this edition with the name of another established writer would be to show you didn’t ...”

“... often-quoted line referred to a Post-Impressionist art exhibition organised by her friend Roger Fry in December 1910. Barkan’s chosen date is that of the Swiss Government’s announcement that it would sell substantial amounts of its gold to create a humanitarian fund of $5 billion, to be dispensed in part to Holocaust victims. He sees this ...”

“... Despite this, it would be H.D. who inspired Pound’s Imagism. Fifty years later Norman Holmes Pearson wrote to her: ‘If there is a single person to whom Ezra has been constant (don’t laugh, my dear) it is you.’ After a series of academic debacles – and a broken engagement to H.D. – Pound set out for London in 1908, at the age of 23. He returned ...”

“... Governor George Gipps, portrayed with careful scholarship and a novelist’s empathy by Roger Millis in his monumental Water-loo Creek (1992), arrived in Sydney in 1838 wielding the report of a House of Commons committee chaired by the Quaker anti-slavery campaigner and philanthropist Thomas Fowell Buxton. The report was scathing about the treatment ...”

“... consisting of John Fuller, Francis Hope, Martin Dodsworth, Colin Falck, Michael Fried and Gabriel Pearson. We never had meetings or anything like that. There was a lot of correspondence, because John went to Buffalo for a year. So he wrote to me a lot from there. And Michael and Colin had already left Oxford and gone off to London, where they shared a ...”

“... Old Exchange Building on 4 October ‘looking for pigeons’ with a 12-year-old boy called Colin Pearson. He said they had got in by climbing over the boundary wall and entering through the window with missing boards at the rear.Boyd’s form was filled out on 11 October – four days before Heron’s arrest. By 27 October, both men were on remand in Durham ...”