Hints and tips:
...Writing about sepulchres in 1809, Mary Shelley’s father, William Godwin, lamented that tombstones were being shuffled off like stubble, ready for next year’s crop....
...Farmer’s daughter Sally is romancing her father’s mechanic, Jacob (Anyebe Godwin), while dreaming of an escape to Britain....
...Simon Godwin’s gorgeous, chic staging at the National Theatre handles this intoxicating mix of light and dark adroitly....
...Vernon God Little, the wildly funny and transgressive story of the aftermath of an American school shooting, was the shock winner of the Man Booker prize in 2003, beating Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake...
...In its romanticism it reminds me of the great head-and-shoulder studies of Julia Margaret Cameron, and in its social attention of John Thompson or Lewis Hine....
...Ingenuity survives: John Godwin won a competition to solve the riddle of The Italian Job, which ends with the getaway bus hanging over a cliff, the gang at one end and the gold at the other....
...One of the little girls under her tutelage, Margaret, became a life-long disciple. Thanks to Johnson, she resolved to live by her pen, as translator, polemicist and writer of fiction....
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