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...Smyth had a warmer relationship with Dorothy Howell (1898-1982), whose Proms debut in 1919 with her symphonic poem Lamia was critically acclaimed....
...Even the childhood homes of authors such as Dorothy Sayers are of interest, selling for a genteel £2.35mn....
...“They lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles,” said Dorothy Parker wryly of the members of the Bloomsbury Group....
...The original observation is variously credited to either Virginia Woolf, her fellow writer Margaret Irwin or the journalist Kingsley Martin....
...Those with residents’ gardens are popular, such as Mecklenburgh Square, where Woolf, Dorothy Sayers and Graham Greene once lived....
...Writer Dorothy Parker quipped that the Bloomsbury set “lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles”....
...Dorothy Draper, decorator of the Greenbrier hotel in West Virginia (also on my tour, for its bombastic scale and “Modern Baroque” style) said that she always puts one controversial item in an interior because...
...Dorothy L Sayers, the crime novelist, was there for a year, Woolf for less than a year and Jane Ellen Harrison, scholar and translator, for two years....
...Her detailed observations on time and memory evoke Katherine Mansfield’s short stories, her interior soliloquies Dorothy Richardson’s epic Pilgrimage series; but the lodestar is Virginia Woolf....
...— Virginia Woolf. Peter Burke’s The Polymath (Yale RRP£20, May) is subtitled “A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag”. Does anyone else find that a strange pairing of names?...
...The development in federal court in New York came on the same afternoon as a Virginia jury convicted Paul Manafort, Mr Trump’s former campaign manager, of tax evasion and bank fraud....
...“If one is a woman writer there are certain things one must do — first, not be too good; second, die young, what an edge Katherine Mansfield has on all of us; third, commit suicide like Virginia Woolf,”...
...In a Royal Opera House studio, they are walking through a key scene in The Wind, a new ballet adapted from Dorothy Scarborough’s 1925 novel, set in the plains of Texas: the heroine, Letty Mason, is raped...
...But that’s not the way things look at the house on a hill in Auburn, Alabama, where Wayne Flynt lives with his wife of 55 years, Dorothy....
...There has been just one prior production (in 1970) of this classic by the Gershwin brothers and DuBose and Dorothy Heyward; an earlier attempt to put it on during the segregated 1950s was nixed by the Gershwin...
...The US writer Dorothy Parker had a quip about the Bloomsbury Group, a ring of early 20th-century artists and intellectuals who set up in this smart section of central London with an abundance of garden squares...
...Born in Virginia, Minnesota, on May 9 1921, Daniel Joseph Berrigan was one of six sons of Thomas William Berrigan, variously an engineer, union leader and farmer with plenty of grievances —“an incendiary...
...For example, Taylor does not explore the friendship between Mansfield and Virginia Woolf....
...‘A Natural History of Life in New York City’, Salon 94, New York, to May 5, salon94.com Photographs: Virginia Museum of Fine Art; Courtesy of the artist and Salon 94; Daniel Traub...
...“I felt bad for Dorothy,” he wrote, “but it was a million bucks for the Democratic party.”...
...A teenage lesbian has two kids with a caustic gay poet living in a Virginia swamp, then absconds with her pale blonde daughter and passes as black....
...He worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1981 to 1984 before beginning his academic career at the University of Virginia in 1984....
...Thirty years later, it was Roth who also did Nicole Kidman’s nose for Virginia Woolf in The Hours....
...Fifty years after he put Seti in motion, pointing the Green Bank radio telescope in West Virginia at two nearby stars to listen for signals from an alien civilisation, we are still waiting to detect even...
...Even in the interwar years, we had the likes of Fred Perry and Dorothy Round....
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