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...In New York, I yielded to temptation and took Edith Wharton’s classic society novel The Age of Innocence off for a walk around Grace Church and Gilded Age Manhattan....
...he asked amid their honeymoon explorations; subsequent family life at the Castle of Saint-Pré would make for an epic movie of its own....
...The Houghton Collection makes pieces inspired by Houghton Hall and Cholmondeley Castle (both homes of the Marquess and Marchioness of Cholmondeley)....
...Fortwilliam House, on the southern bank, is about two miles upstream from Lismore Castle....
...Vanderbilt’s socially progressive wife, Edith, helped to subsidise a craft-education programme that trained locals in traditions of woodworking and weaving....
...The estate would have been visible from the castle and King’s assent was sought (and received), but the developer (Jack Pritchard, who put the émigrés up rent-free at his Lawn Road Flats in Hampstead, London...
...The painter Alvaro Casanova built a castle with a drawbridge and turrets, which fired a cannon every day at noon. The spirit of innovation continues....
...Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry, was born Edith Helen Chaplin in 1878 in Lincolnshire....
...Edith Wharton fell for the place in the early 20th century and I fell for it in 1999 when cycling past the garden’s watergate with triumphant Diana at its apex....
...In “Castle 4,” one of her more sprawling pieces, Pearlman threads together the narratives of various characters at a large hospital — the anaesthesiologist, the gift shop owner, a security guard, some local...
...He wrote excitedly to Edith Wharton that he was able to choose 60 and buy them “for an incredibly small sum . . . much less than a modest motor car”....
...Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach, by John Eliot Gardiner, Allen Lane, RRP£30/Knopf, RRP$35 Mixing scholarliness and practical experience, one of our leading conductors...
...An apartment for two in the castle at La Foce costs from €550 per week....
...For Edith Wharton, it possessed a unique kind of “garden-magic”. Authorship of this masterpiece of Italian Renaissance garden design remains debated....
...The analysis has been made classily and devastatingly by Edith Wharton, affectionately and sensitively by Somerset Maugham....
...He told me I must see writing as a princess in a castle – I must give everything to it and love it and then the door to the castle will open. What was the first novel you read?...
...Jennings draws on sources such as Evelyn Waugh and Edith Wharton; his prose often rises to the wit of the former and the elegance of the latter....
...With the ruins of its castle atop an imposing bluff between two golden crescents of sand, Scarborough has the sort of physical setting that any UK coastal holiday venue would wish for....
...Supported by American Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery, the Arthur & Holly Magill Foundation, the Edith Callam Memorial Trust, the Elizabeth Cayzer Charitable Trust, the Italian Cultural Institute and...
...Edith Wharton By Hermione Lee Chatto & Windus £25, 864 pages FT bookshop price: £20 An absorbing biography of the wealthy 19th-century New York author that goes a long way towards bringing her out of...
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