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...Most are by female artists, some of whom — such as Jane Simone Bussy — are connected to Bloomsbury, and others who are little known....
...In the late 1990s, Sarah Jane Checkland set out to write Nicholson’s biography. Most of the family refused to talk — according, they said, to his wishes — and letters were not shared....
...Visiting such places can be deeply touching — to stand for a moment in Jane Austen’s modest house in Chawton, seeing the tiny writing table and hearing the racket of the village street just a few feet away...
...Low’s pitcher plant (Nepenthes lowii) grows on Mount Kinabalu in Borneo and has evolved to live on the droppings of shrews and birds, which use the pitchers as a toilet....
...• Hazel Pitchers has moved to Axa Investment Managers as global head of marketing. Ms Pitchers joins the €694bn asset management arm of Axa, the insurer, from BlackRock....
...“Small businesses can’t cope,” says manager Lorna Jane Smith....
...James’s greatest passions: the detective novel and the work of Jane Austen....
...Jane Clarke of Nicholson McBride, the business psychologists, says that many people fail to understand this relationship....
...“I think that chicken almost sent Anne round the bend,” said Withers, referring to Anne Pitcher, buying and merchandising director of Selfridges....
...Two years ago, the local council drove out the fly pitchers whose colourful junk used to link the three groups of bona fide stands....
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