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“... atoll of human experience from the historical tunnel-vision of the past hundred and fifty years. Rosalind Marshall’s Virgins and Viragos and Eve and the New Jerusalem express polar opposites in contemporary historical style. For all its prurient title, Virgins and Viragos is a work of serious and densely-packed scholarship, slightly antiquarian in ...”

“... in organising a court and intrigue, but there is very little for the rest of the family to do. Dr Marshall suggests that Charles Edward’s mother’s anorexia and his own alcoholism had a common root, and both may have been the result of unwillingness to admit to uselessness. A royal claimant or his heir cannot settle to alternative work: their significance ...”

“... sustained by a presbyterian church structure, but could equally well make use of episcopacy. Dr Marshall holds that the issue of Scottish economic development, or the lack of such development, is a red herring. The ‘medieval’ features of the economy, which prevented capital accumulation and deployment and the development of a skilled labour force, are ...”

“... because it denies us the pleasure of finding out what Lewis would have to say about Jean Plaidy or Rosalind Marshall or Vanessa Redgrave (hopelessly pitted against Glenda Jackson in the dreary 1971 film Mary Queen of Scots), but because it means she doesn’t have to explore the 20th-century American perspective from which she makes her confident ...”

“... Linearity suggests progress, which was never the most popular notion in backward colonial Ireland. Marshall McLuhan, who first drew the world’s attention to the difference between the linearity of print and the synchronicity of the modern media, wrote about Joyce in his doctoral thesis. Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are synchronic worlds in McLuhan’s ...”

“... One of the very first Newnham students, for example, Mary Paley, married the economist Alfred Marshall, who in the 1890s led the opposition against allowing women to use the title BA (apparently changing his mind since the earliest days, when he had persuaded his future wife to sit the examination in Moral Sciences). And even the most radical men could on ...”

“... and in the 1940s you could find her presiding over the counters of the smarter shops – Marshall and Snelgrove, Matthias Robinson or, in my aunties’ case, Manfield’s Shoe Shop and White’s Ladies Gowns. The Davis manner, bored, sceptical, sarcastic, was particularly effective when ‘chalking people off’, as Mam called it. It was something ...”

“... as the spectral centre of a flashy scene, a kind of blank Gesamtkunstwerk-in-person. Whereas Marshall McLuhan, a very different media figure of the 1960s, viewed new technologies as prostheses, Warhol used them as screens. As Koestenbaum writes, the dominant strategy of his Pop was to combine ‘lurid subject’ and ‘cool presentation’, and to ...”

“... the acid-suppressant pills that I’ve been on ever since. 14 January. Tom Stoppard rings my agent Rosalind Chatto to tell her that when in last year’s LRB diary I quote an old lady in New York as saying ‘I zigged when I should have zagged’ the original remark came from the American sports reporter Red Butler, who reported it as having been said by ...”