High-Victorian Sentimentality, Liszt's Cigar, and Indomitable Mothers
One dreary and rather hopeless Christmas several years ago, as my mother was in the last weeks of chemotherapy for stage 4 ovarian cancer, I gave h...
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Before—well before—Forbes’s “World’s Most Powerful Women” lists and Vogue’s “Women in Hollywood” covers, there were the Galeries des Dames. Modeled...
Read moreAs Oscar Wilde apocryphally said, "Life is much too important to be taken seriously."
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Read moreFrom royal origins to industrialized production, the Staffordshire Spaniel tells the story of our love of dogs.
Read moreHow King George IV's mad passion for a beautiful widow inspired a craze for Lover's Eye miniatures.
Read moreThis is a novel in which nothing much happens and yet because of it the world was never the same.
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