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...Dorothy Wordsworth wrote. “We come to the Valais every year,” grins a fellow walker, an autumn-struck teacher from Zurich, as we gaze at a birch posing on a slope like a film star in backless gold....
...I walked out into the Piccadilly sunshine and instantly it began to snow....
...sonnet “Composed upon Westminster Bridge” in 1802 fancies that, at dawn, “all that mighty heart is lying still”, while “St Paul’s” recalls streets “Deep, hollow, unobstructed, vacant, smooth” below the snow-covered...
...In the 1880s, one Charles Snow, a stonemason, was still receiving £1 and 16 shillings for a week’s work in Oxford colleges. In between he was laid off and paid nothing....
...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....
...“I know you do not like pergolas, nor do I, if by ‘pergola’ you mean one of those things in Sunningdale villas — a riot with Dorothy Perkins” [a popular climbing rose]....
...The great American decorator Dorothy Draper, in her staunch yet jaunty hostess bible Entertaining is Fun!...
...Dorothy is about 12 when she takes the slippers from the feet of the Wicked Witch of the East, an exemplar of femininity gone “wrong” in her unalloyed destructiveness, and, on Dorothy’s maidenly self, the...
...The best accessory for the party season is a stock of intriguing anecdotes and Dorothy Parker-like bon mots....
...Lauren Laverne would have the best iPod …But it would have to be Dorothy Dietrich, the escapologist. What book do you wish you’d written?...
...Even a touching picture of Dorothy and Lillian Gish, photographed outdoors in the snow in their advanced old age, shows less about them than about the peculiar ferocity Arbus brought to a picture....
...The snow came, I went out in the car and drew it on the iPad, so I’m warm – I feel the cold intensely because of my thin legs....
...Less than two years later he died on the French Riviera, with George, Dorothy Wellesley and Edith Shackleton Heald all in attendance....
...Yet, somehow, she had ended up in Toronto with me in her arms, and through the window she could see the snow whirling....
...Blood Red Snow White By Marcus Sedgwick Orion Books £9.99, 278 pages FT bookshop price: £7.99 Sedgwick tells of Arthur Ransome’s time in Bolshevik-era Russia, first as a journalist, then as a spy....
...As anthropologist Dorothy Carrington so accurately observed, they “soar into the sky behind, beyond, above, in rows of cones and spikes and square-topped knobs like gigantic teeth.”...
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