Hints and tips:
...The research, now released as Revolting Women, only saw the light of day after Dorothy Byrne, a former broadcaster turned president of Cambridge’s all-women Murray Edwards College, “knocked down doors” to...
...Smyth had a warmer relationship with Dorothy Howell (1898-1982), whose Proms debut in 1919 with her symphonic poem Lamia was critically acclaimed....
...Finally, aspirant crime writers will relish the tips in Howdunit, edited by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins, £14.99); everyone from Dorothy L Sayers to current crime writers are on hand to inspire those hoping...
...Olivier was out of his depth, and the cracks in their marriage became chasms as she began a tempestuous affair with Peter Finch and he a more temperate one with Dorothy Tutin....
...Finally, this piece in The New Yorker, by Dorothy Wickenden, about the wonderful literary Luddite Wendell Berry and his advice for today’s stressed out era, is just terrific....
...It was a portrait commissioned by the wealthy British poet and art patron Edward James....
...These are all trademarks of one of my hero decorators, Dorothy Draper: take a look at any of her fabulous interiors and you’ll see what I mean....
...As Dorothy Hartley wrote in Food in England in 1954, “You get [watercress for tea] in most unexpected places! I have had it in country cottages, in cathedral city tea-rooms and the British Museum.”...
...Dorothy Byrne, who was a successful TV executive before becoming head of Murray-Edwards college, is wonderfully honest about having put her career first and only woken up to her biological clock just in...
...As a designer myself, I often turn to the mantras penned by the long-dead people whose work I admire and take inspiration from: the American decorators Nancy Lancaster and Dorothy Draper, say, or the English...
...Berkshire-based Albatross enthusiast Malcolm Edwards acquired a Continental for considerably less in 2010 – £2,000 – though he spent the next six years restoring it....
...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...
...We mostly adore the same stuff: Dorothy Draper, moiré silk, Emilio Terry, shell grottoes, ceramics shaped like fish....
...It is where Edward VII and his mistress, actress Lillie Langtry, dined together in private....
...Luke Edward Hall’s Q&A Luke Edward Hall joins House & Home from March 9, with a fortnightly column answering readers’ questions on aesthetics, interior design and stylish living....
...Edward Bastian, chief executive, was acting on a sense of moral conviction over a matter unrelated to Delta’s core business, says Aaron Chatterji of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business....
...The church is only 58 years old, built in memory of Edward Powys Cobb, my great-grandfather....
...She starred opposite Humphrey Bogart, Edward G Robinson, Steve McQueen. She was honoured with not one but two stars on the Walk of Fame....
...When Dorothy Wordsworth’s life in the Lake District with her poet brother (“William devoting himself to poetry, Dorothy devoting herself to William”) was disrupted by William’s engagement to a mutual friend...
...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...
...There were no liabilities as part of the deal and its bank debt had been written off by Sir Philip’s Arcadia group, which includes Topshop and Dorothy Perkins....
...His report cited the case of Dorothy, a 74-year old lady with early stage dementia whose care workers cost £6,584 a year....
...His friend Edward Burne-Jones complained that Leighton’s paintings were “not quite believable” – which was surely their point....
...Over the past five years, he has shifted much of the trading space for Arcadia’s brands such as Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Evans, from standalone outlets to within BHS stores....
...snaps Father, in Dorothy Edwards’ 1952 story My Naughty Little Sister and the Ring....
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