Hints and tips:
...A vastly entertaining riff not just on Mary Shelley, but the novels of her father William Godwin....
...The thing about British designer Mary Quant, says Edward Sexton, the Savile Row tailor who helped shape the look of the Swinging Sixties in London, is that she was “immediately recognisable....
...Like Mary McCarthy’s The Company She Keeps, 50 years earlier, Prozac Nation brought news of sophisticated, messy young people in New York City, only instead of alcohol, leftwing politics and Reno divorces...
...The 19th-century detective Sexton Blake was invented by Hal Meredeth but his exploits were chronicled by more than 200 authors over 80 years....
...On stage in a beautifully tailored suit made by Edward Sexton. What ambitions do you still have? I’d like to write a great love song....
...Kind of Freedom, by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, JM Originals, RRP£10.99/Counterpoint, RRP$26 (2017) An acclaimed debut following three generations of a New Orleans family....
...Mary’s Living & Giving Shop is a charity shop set up with the help of Mary Portas that always has some great finds, from 1960s glassware to vintage jackets, and Absolute Flowers is my go-to for emergency...
...Finally Grant gives us the farcical attempts by Mary Whitehouse to prosecute the film Last Tango in Paris (in 1974) and the National Theatre production of The Romans in Britain (in 1982) for obscenity —...
...Even the most charming ocean-front cottage is capable of guile and deception; recall the poet Anne Sexton’s ode to a beach house that alluded to its prison of pine and bedspring....
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