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“... thing that ever happened to her. In his lavish and loving new book about Garland’s MGM years, Scott Brogan (who runs several websites devoted to her life and career) wonders whether she might have had an easier time of things, at MGM and beyond, had Frank lived longer.One of Frank Gumm’s singing partners said he had the most beautiful voice she had ...”

“... prose is never tinged with purple, the dialogue is superbly lifelike and economical. And, as Hugh Brogan points out in his biography, while Ransome ‘did not live to encounter that marvellously self-serving critical doctrine according to which the only subject of art is art and even such works as Emma are concerned chiefly with their own writing ... his tale ...”

“... evidence is as sparse as it is for Shakespeare or as voluminous as it is for Sir Walter Scott, it can never be complete. Although some were destroyed and others censored by Cassandra Austen, we have many of the letters that Jane Austen wrote to this sister and a few she wrote to others. It is unlikely that any large body of the letters she received ...”