Hints and tips:
...Cassandra Goad gold, blue topaz and iolite ring, £7,660....
...The fascination spans the past – see Anne Hathaway’s spaghetti-esque archive Valentino dress at the 2023 Fashion Awards (“I’ve always dreamed about being pasta,” she mused) – and present: Alaïa described...
...(Bentley’s conviction was posthumously overturned in 1998 after decades of campaigning by his family.)...
...He famously helmed Lindsay House in Soho and brought Bentley’s Oyster Bar back from the grave. He’s also the man who helped me understand the word “rich” — and reappropriate it....
...Anne Bass was renowned for her support of dance, notably New York City Ballet, and practised ballet herself until very late in life....
...Also in the lot is a version of Magritte’s masterpiece L’Empire des Lumières, which the Belgian artist gifted to his muse Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet....
...There is a playful letter from Austen to her sister Cassandra in which she writes about an upcoming ball: . . ....
...Members of the Royal Family including Princess Anne and Prince Charles followed the coffin on foot, while the Queen travelled at the back of the procession in a state Bentley, escorted by a lady in waiting...
...I very much like Suffolk-based Cassandra Cunningham’s eye (she trades as Almasy Antiques)....
...Anne-Laure Dupont laughed on her way in, saying: “I’ve been locked up at home alone for two months, I’m delighted to get back to work.” Not everyone is back....
...Gill Hornby (Miss Austen , Century RRP£12.99, January/Flat Iron RRP$26.99, April) and Helen Moffett (Charlotte , Manilla Press RRP£12.99, May) field Austen-themed novels, the first concerning Cassandra Austen...
...One says she is overcome by anxiety whenever she sees a Bentley — one of several luxury cars he owns — drive through Manchester....
...“He likes foreigners,” said Cassandra, beaming. This was a public event rather than a party gathering and some people had come to witness rather than celebrate....
...Their intimacy was emotional and intellectual — a connection so intense that Jane’s sister, Cassandra, felt impelled to burn most of their correspondence....
...In Persuasion, the little non-events of heroine Anne Elliot’s suspended life do duty for years of separation and war — the domestic made public....
...The new Bank of England £10 note being issued later this year to commemorate Austen will feature an adaptation of Cassandra’s sketch....
...Mr Bentley said: “As we concentrate our business on the Caribbean and Latin America, we have taken this opportunity to crystallise the value we have created.”...
...As Daniel Thomas and Anne-Sylvaine Chassany report, the deal is in the final stages of negotiations and could be announced this week, according to two people familiar with the situation....
...London’s most architecturally inventive buildings are also built from brick, from William Morris’s Red House in Bexleyheath to JF Bentley’s awesome, neo-Byzantine Westminster Cathedral....
...Bentley’s UK sales are up almost a quarter in the first nine months of the year to 1,055 cars, making the country its second-largest single market after the US....
...He concludes with a story about the arrest of a Russian ambassador in the reign of Queen Anne, which so upset the Tsar of Russia that he wrote, demanding that those responsible be executed....
...With writers such as Brian Friel, Colm Tóibín, Seamus Heaney, John Banville and Anne Enright, there is no recession in Irish culture....
...The Graduate, in which Hoffman’s character is seduced by an older woman, Anne Bancroft’s Mrs Robinson, went on to become one of the defining films of its era....
...Yyonne Naef delivered Cassandra’s pronouncements in strong, compelling tones that were heeded only when she admonished the Trojan women to choose suicide over rape by Greek soldiers....
...But Neil Bentley, the CBI’s director of public services, warned there was still a “danger” that the government might now be driven by the “attitudes of an unreformed Prison Service”....
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