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...Under “P for Pornographer” we find Henry Spencer Ashbee, a Victorian businessman who may also have been the author of My Secret Life, one of the most notorious erotic memoirs ever published....
...The Marriage Portrait shares a keynote poem (Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess”) with After You’d Gone, and an iconic 16th-century backdrop with Hamnet....
...Investors waded in to metals on expectations that output cuts, driven by soaring power prices, will outweigh the potential lower demand should sentiment shift when interest rates move higher,” said John Browning...
...This helped repair the global market, said John Browning, founder of Shanghai-based brokerage Bands Financial....
...In terms of work and what they do, it’s Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. Bob Dylan is also a complete hero. Then there’s John Berger, Samuel Beckett and John Lennon....
...Richmond Park (7 miles) Good for: rus in urbe Not so good for: anyone allergic to deer FYI: King Henry’s Mound, on which Henry VIII stood on May 19 1536 to watch a rocket fired from the Tower of London...
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...John Browning, managing director of Hong Kong futures broker Bands Financial, says the corporate clients he speaks to are finding access to credit difficult and are “having a tough time”....
...There are tiny nuances in the quality of the browning, the fluffiness that can be achieved in the interior, the amount of distressing the parboiled chips will take to create a crisp exterior . . ....
...One featured a crane dipping her Yale friends Naomi Wolf (later famous for her feminist bestseller The Beauty Myth) and Barbara Browning (a fictocritical anthropologist, natch) into buckets of milk....
...“Photographs that I intend should electrify you with delight and startle the world” were addressed to Henry Cole, director of the South Kensington Museum; the “Herschel Album”, bound in solid oak with a...
...Goodman tells me one story about when, shortly after arriving in New York, he appeared in a production of Terence Rattigan’s public-school comedy The Browning Version....
...The dead was judged and convicted…” Robert Browning included the trial in his narrative poem, The Ring and the Book, retelling the story of “how there was a ghastly Trial once/ Of a dead man by a live man...
...Everything that they’ve done that even can be argued as a gesture of reconciliation for reform or negotiation is a cynical time-buying manoeuvre,” said Michael Weiss, a London-based Syria expert for the Henry...
...More recently, Michael Holroyd’s A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families (2009) offered us a theatrical and social cavalcade – from the mid...
...Our favourite line of Browning is more “A man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?” and less “What become of Waring/ Since he gave us all the slip?”...
...Seamus O’Brien has written a handsome tribute to Henry’s work, In The Footsteps Of Augustine Henry (Garden Art Press, £40)....
...Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s house at 99 Gloucester Place was being demolished. I removed the sashes but the builders told me they might re-use them....
...More affordably, the Davids auction offers letters and notes by literary giants such as Dickens, Hardy and Henry James for around £1,000, and admirers of contemporary authors, such as PD James or Julian...
...It made me start counting up literary-sexual partnerships which were not destructive, from the Brownings on, and wonder about women writers who had destructive relationships with non-writing men (did that...
...wrote Robert Browning, describing a recurrent theme of human behaviour. But the poet did not provide useful guidance for the stewards of great corporations....
...For Henry Shearer, a chartered surveyor taking an unexpectedly long holiday with his girlfriend, the lack of information was an added strain....
...I’m also keen to start Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (Penguin). How do you like to get there? Where holidays are concerned, my children are bizarrely attached to very early starts....
...Henry Blodget, internet analyst at Merrill Lynch, was the most famous scalp....
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