Hints and tips:
...Flora’s 75-year-old sister, Eleanor Swan, played with a superb avoidance of over-cosiness by Rosemary Harris, endures Pike’s literalist queries....
...… Eleanor Marx: A Life, by Rachel Holmes, Bloomsbury, RRP£25 Marx produced the first English translation of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, was the first woman to lead the British dock workers’ and gas workers...
...Set during the funeral of Patrick’s mother Eleanor, it puts the protagonist on an unpredictable course towards reconciling himself to the damage caused by his parents....
...Eleanor Dark, for example, whose work is out of print, and whose The Timeless Land (1941) explores the first settlement with vivid sympathy....
...Like others here, notably Richard McCabe (King John), Sorcha Cusack (Queen Eleanor), Nicholas Day (King Philip of France), it’s evident that they’re deeply involved with the particularities of their characters...
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