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...First to arrive, exactly on time, is Louisa Pesel, expert embroiderer and leader of a group of women who made cushions and kneelers for Winchester Cathedral in the 1930s....
...Naomi Louisa O’Connell’s assertive portrayal of Mary, played out in a prison corridor, arouses sympathy, despite Mary’s lethal emotional volatility, because you sense that somehow she has the wherewithal...
...Characters have little time to expand: Hana Ichijo’s Meg (sweet) and Mary Moore’s Amy (brattish) are particularly short-changed, as is the girls’ curious neighbour, Laurie (Sev Keoshgerian)....
...I loved the waves of outrage that were unleashed by Maggi Hambling’s statue of Mary Wollstonecraft....
...Louisa Chastney, a mentoring co-ordinator in the Careers and Enterprise department at Queen Mary University of London, is one example of someone who has benefited from the MHFA programme....
...When it comes to jewellery made by artists, the dealer Louisa Guinness is the doyenne....
...Born Mary Louisa (“Iza”) Cushing, the Boston heiress mixes dignity with impishness. She props herself up on the back of a gilded settee amid an extravagant confection of velvet and tulle....
...The interplay of shapes and spaces here is extremely pleasing, especially in photographs, and the expert Louisa Jones, an authority on southern French gardens, has done a fine job in presenting it all in...
...The other two – Mercedes and Ana Louisa – are from her first marriage to landowner Guillermo Behrens-Tello (they married when she was 18 and divorced when she was 24)....
...Keeping this operation solvent is the responsibility of Rower, who explains that a trust established in 1987 by his grandmother and the artist’s widow, Louisa James Calder, provided the foundation with a...
...Stella Tillyard is author of ‘Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1750-1832’ (Vintage). Her novel ‘Tides of War’ will be published by Chatto & Windus in May...
...Think Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie (1935), or Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women (1868): our girls’ bookshelves are filled with the enduring fantasy of the glorified tomboy....
...“It was time well spent,” I replied. ………………………………… Louisa May Alcott’s solution: ‘Christmas won’t be Christmas without presents’ Louisa May Alcott’s classic children’s novel ‘Little Women’ (1868) begins...
...Even Mary and Colin in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden (1909) can’t refuse the delicious breakfasts brought to them despite their plans to starve to death – how else could they cultivate their...
...Jo March in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. Interview by Stanley Pignal. Small Talk: Joanne Harris...
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