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...Missing Person, Or My Grandmother’s Secrets by Clair Wills (Allen Lane)An Irish family memoir of unmarried motherhood through the generations explores the secrets families keep and the violence carried out...
...The first recording is not Thomas Edison’s much-documented wax cylinder recording of “Mary Had a Little Lamb”, but a ghostly voice singing the folk song “Au clair de la lune”....
...Her mother, Clair Sims, was a concert pianist who relinquished her career in order to raise her four children, becoming a London tour guide and piano teacher to pay the bills....
...“In New York I just played a programme that opens with Debussy’s ‘Clair de Lune’....
...William Clay Ford Jr, executive chairman of Ford Motor Company, may be what passes for royalty in the “Motor City” of Detroit — but he’s not quite sure he’s memorable enough to have made an impression on...
...the rushing waters at a lock framed by rows of poplars and a small town street in “Le Déversoir de Pontoise” (1881); a distant village unfolding across meadows and orchards in “Vue de Bazincourt, temps clair...
...The story of the Godwins and the Shelleys, at the heart of English Romanticism, was brilliantly told in William St Clair’s family biography of 1989....
...Among his favourite poets is William Blake. “So clever, so subtle. And a great artist too.” His first monograph came in 1965 at the gallery of Jacques Kerchache....
...Leonard St Clair Ingrams, OBE, came from a long line of clergymen and was a dashing figure, a bit of a philanderer and a brilliant financier....
...There have been family biographies (the two-generational The Godwins and the Shelleys by William St Clair) and several books on the friendship between Byron and Shelley....
...“I remember Andy Williams ringing me up in the early 1970s....
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