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...An anachronistic tale more fitted to the 1890s or the 1920s than the ’70s and ’80s, when I was seeing Elvis Costello at the Roundhouse and doing Mansfield Park and the Reformation for A-level....
...But in the immediate term, “Sunak has stolen Starmer’s thunder,” said Tim Bale, professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London....
...Her father was Mansfield’s nephew, a Royal Navy officer who sailed the Caribbean....
...Mary, the middle sister, uses high levels of Latinate words, but this indicates her pretentiousness rather than her intelligence....
...Mansfield’s rulings were influenced by the climate of the time, partly created by the active consumerism that Everill describes....
...She is not a blank like Mary Magdalen to whom any words might be given in the absence of external controls....
...Gleason, president, International Longshoreman’s Association, New York, June 29 1976; Carl Albert, US congressman (Oklahoma), speaker of the House of Representatives, Washington, DC, March 12 1976; Rose Mary...
...“I was given it by Lady Mariota Napier, the lovely sister of the Earl of Mansfield.”...
Gender pay gap at England’s top colleges reveals large variations
...Writers such as Woolf, Mansfield and Sylvia Plath linger on the sidelines of Sharp, but they are not leading characters....
...Mary Mendy, aged 54, and her daughter, Khadija Saye, age 24, were remembered by Mendy’s niece, Marion Telfer, and Saye’s father, Mahammadou Saye....
...There is a touching image of Woolf, lovingly typesetting Mansfield’s stories, letter by letter, for the Hogarth Press. Woolf recognised Mansfield as her equal and ally....
...She has written about Shelley and Dickens and Thomas Hardy; about Austen and Katherine Mansfield and Dora Jordan, actress and mistress of the Duke of Clarence, later King William IV....
...During one fire Laura, with her customary boldness, dragged her older sister Mary and the baby to safety. Not bad, her mother said, for four....
...He went on to study physics at Queen Mary University of London, where he worked on nuclear magnetic resonance for his PhD....
...Photographs: Gap Photos/Julie Dansereau; Bridgeman Images; Medici/Mary Evans...
...A character on their way to an urgent meeting wanders into Regent’s Park, a detour both physical and emotional, past the pond where Percy and Mary Shelley sailed their paper boats and across the hilltop...
...Michael Mansfield and Geoffrey Robertson are perhaps their closest equivalents; but the last of the legendary QCs was Jeremy Hutchinson, who celebrated his 100th birthday this year....
...Sipping a Virgin Mary, I savour the moment ahead of the first on-the-record interview with the Chief of MI6, Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS)....
...But it’s carnal and satirical and American enough to be heartier than camp — it’s Ivy Compton-Burnett crossed with Mary Karr....
...Mary Borden’s short story “In the Operating Room” is a packed, feverish dialogue piece, where order barely prevails over chaos in a field hospital: “2nd Surgeon: What’s his ticket say? Show it to me....
...Today we opt for pints of ale at the Catherine Wheel and the Miller of Mansfield, two (perhaps the only two) local pubs....
...Just as her sailor brothers, Frank and Charles, were instrumental in shaping the naval background to Mansfield Park (1814) and Persuasion (1817), so Henry’s military associations had a subtle impact on his...
...“A large income,” Mary Crawford said in Mansfield Park, “is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”...
...Its chapter headings require immediate investigation: “The Lettuce Farm Palace”, “Mansfield Poke” and “Let Them Eat Squirrel”....
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