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...More temperately, the bestselling author Margaret Oliphant — who stoically continued writing despite four of her children dying during the first 12 years of her long marriage — deplored the queen’s lack...
...“A man ordered to sit still for hours on a narrow stool is bound to assume contorted postures,” Gilles Deleuze writes in Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation....
...For Margaret Thatcher, Sir Bernard Ingham was a “tough, blunt, humorous Yorkshireman” who “never let me down”....
...It was a particularly flowery spring, and Caerhays’ magnificent 25ft campbellii Princess Margaret strutted her dark pink cups against a china blue sky....
...Francis Stories also has a lovely cashmere and fine wool mix for those who always feel the cold....
...Bidding closes 24 June Novels marked-up by their own authorsChristie’s, London Fancy owning an “extensively” annotated first edition of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale?...
...Three months after Oksana’s arrival in Paliano, Pope Francis came to deliver a private Easter mass....
...Liberalism and its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama, Profile £16.99/Farrar, Straus & Giroux $26 Francis Fukuyama has been one of the most influential political theorists in the west for more than 30 years...
...And so he painted this portrait of himself that borders on [Francis] Bacon grotesque....
...Liberalism and Its Discontentsby Francis Fukuyama, Profile £16.99/Farrar Straus and Giroux $26 Fukuyama has been one of the most influential political theorists in the west for more than 30 years....
...Children like stories about cannibalism, as Margaret Atwood once noted....
...Meanwhile, political philosopher Francis Fukuyama returns to familiar areas of inquiry in Liberalism and its Discontents (Profile, March), a short, sharp defence of a world view under threat....
...At one time, Brewster and his wife Margaret had nine children — these are the survivors. During the past six months, coronavirus has wrought its own tragedies....
...But even the emancipated, literate figure of Margaret Schlegel in Forster’s Howards End finally gains the titular house through marriage....
...A photograph records the balding, reticent Magnani showing Princess Margaret, lively in polka dots, his Filippo Lippi “Madonna and Child”, with its ornamental trompe l’oeil marble effects....
...Margaret Thatcher, who embodies the social mobility of the postwar golden age, is seen saying: “I don’t think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.”...
...A later landlord was gangster George Francis, linked to the Kray brothers and the notorious Brink’s-Mat robbery; legend has it this is where the audacious heist was planned....
...It is also unsurprising that the Gay Hussar was where the Tory “wets” chose to plot the downfall of Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s and where a young Tony Blair was said to have been encouraged in the early...
...Francis Gallery is his first unofficial showroom space and the first physical retailer for his works....
...And there have been blood bonds between author and guardian: Felix Francis published 13 books under the Dick Francis banner after his father’s death in 2000....
...There is a market for the off-the-charts dottiness gleefully portrayed in recent best-sellers about Princess Margaret and her batty grandmother Queen Mary....
...A whole city is mirrored in a tiny pool of water in the postcard-sized “Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata”, now returning to Belgium from Philadelphia....
...Sculptural and mixed-media pieces by Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri and Piero Manzoni will go up for auction alongside works by David Hockney, Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois....
...There are a high number of other female photographers in the socially-conscious collection — Dorothea Lange, Consuelo Kanaga and Margaret Bourke-White also feature....
...Margaret Thatcher’s quotation from St Francis of Assisi — “Where there is discord, may we bring harmony”— not only wrongfooted aides listening from behind the door of Number 10, it was a bum steer to the...
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