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...Private markets adviser Hamilton Lane has appointed Victor Jung, formerly a senior adviser at Partners Group, to the newly created role of head of digital assets....
...The 1812 theatre was declared on its opening night by Lord Byron to be a “shrine for Shakespeare”....
...L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated ‘Female Byron’, by Lucasta Miller, Jonathan Cape, RRP£25/Knopf, RRP$30 Letitia Landon or LEL as she styled herself,...
...In Byron’s Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron’s Wife and Daughter, Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace, by Miranda Seymour, Simon & Schuster, RRP£25 After the death of her husband Lord Byron, Annabella...
...After a gloomy winter, we’ll all be ready for Spring (Hamish Hamilton, March)....
...As well the Caucasus and Greece, Hughes visits the subterranean remains of the temple of Bacchus in the City of London, and Painshill Park in Surrey, where an 18th-century Grand Tourist, Charles Hamilton...
...Why Former Albany residents include novelists Georgette Heyer, Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, JB Priestley and the poet Lord Byron....
...The Broadway season began with the now legendary Hamilton. Then came an impressive revival of The Color Purple that has audiences singing and dancing in their seats....
...Hot Milk, by Deborah Levy, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£12.99 In a hot, dry, underemployed Spain, 25-year-old Sofia arrives with her mother Rose to find a cure for the latter’s obscure and obsessive ailments....
...In this edition, almost as fascinating as Horace’s lines are some of the collected translators: Milton, Byron, even Elizabeth I....
...While holidaying in the Alps with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, the young Mary Godwin was stranded indoors by unending rain....
...off-kilter portrait painted by Leonardo Guzzardi of Nelson during his time in Sicily, while he was toting around the mistress he’d stolen from his host, the volcano-loving British ambassador Sir William Hamilton...
...Extracted from ‘The Tao of Travel’ (Hamish Hamilton) by Paul Theroux...
...A Quiet Adjustment By Benjamin Markovits Faber £12.99, 240 pages Last year Texan-in-London Markovits brought out Imposture, the first in a trilogy about Byron....
...Real-life figure Dr John Polidori was, briefly, Byron’s physician....
...GRACE by Robert Drewe Hamish Hamilton £14.99, 432 pages Let me get this straight: I’m a fan of Robert Drewe. He’s not widely known in the UK, but he is in his native Australia....
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