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...This season, sisters Erica and Faye Toogood have done something more nuanced. The Tinker gilet has skewed proportions, with a folk tale in mind of an individual “roving the land dispensing utensils”....
...This peculiar device was created by an American physician, Dr Orville Ward Owen (1854-1924) in order to decipher what he believed were hidden messages “proving” Francis Bacon to be the author of the texts...
...Irving is a hero of late 20th-century American fiction: The World According to Garp (1978), The Cider House Rules (1985) and A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989) are exemplars of Irving’s blend of realist magic...
...Jane Owen FT House & Home editor …………………………………………………………….....
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