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...In The Weekend Essay (Life & Arts, February 3) Professor Josephine Quinn states that “civilisational thinking is simply wrong”. Might this be too sweeping?...
...Josephine Quinn is a professor of ancient history at the University of Oxford....
...It was so chic that a wealthy Tampa socialite, Josephine Lee, hired Lowe on the spot after seeing her at an Alabama department store in 1916....
...She also often collaborated with writers such as Jan Morris and VS Pritchett – most famously shooting the photographs for Mary McCarthy’s seminal literary study The Stones of Florence....
...Friend and his wife, Libby, have brought up their daughters, Josephine, nine, and Florence, seven, on Ibiza and they have been impressed with the education system....
...Intriguingly, there are also lesser known images by Germaine Krull and Florence Henri, female photographers who had a distinctive eye for the interweaving complexities of everyday life in the city....
...This floral fragrance, she explains, is built around cassia, and uses the iris from Florence, which is so precious it costs more than gold....
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