Hints and tips:
...The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is South African potter Hylton Nel, who should be a national treasure. There’s humour and vulnerability to his pieces....
...Doubtfire and the first two Harry Potter movies? Which actress is the great-granddaughter of British prime minister Herbert Asquith? Who wrote Anne of Green Gables?...
...His New York Times obituary descibes the rooms as ressembling “Hogarth paintings, Dickens stage sets and a three-dimensional Beatrix Potter drawing....
...— mainFT’s Mary McDougall, August 2023...
...“A friend and mentor of mine, Mary Lasker, used to ask, ‘What is missing and what is needed?’ This is the basis for my philanthropy....
...Harry Potter and the Matrix films are his touchstones and, still a virgin, he longs for a white girlfriend....
...Burleigh, another heritage potter, is not producing coronation ware at all. But Emma Bridgewater is confident. Royal occasions are a big deal for its customers....
...The darker elements of the story are played down, except when Michael Mayes cuts through the sweetness as George’s nemesis, Henry F Potter....
...If only Potter had looked to the city rather than the hedgerow, she would not have so savagely missed the potential of the bird. Look at it now....
...“We want the house to feel like everything has been collected over time,” says Potter....
...The Harry Potter books becoming collectables in the Noughties merely made the already-growing market go more mainstream, he says....
...Over two days I potter about the village’s churches and wonder if Mary’s apparition risks being forgotten a second time....
...The piece forms part of Noha’s ongoing project embracing the overlooked history of female potters....
...Clare Barrett’s Mary Two wants to cut pages from the script of his life so she can get to another gig; Aoife Duffin’s Mary One doesn’t want to take part at all....
...Margaret’s daughter Mary died at 22; her son Hugh Angus succumbed to appendicitis aged just 13. By the 1920s, fishing was in decline and other jobs had dwindled....
...His tall, always elegantly dressed figure was a staple in opera houses and ballet venues across the world, and the many books he co-authored with Mary Clarke over the years remain classic texts....
...That, at least, is how Nigel Newton, founder and chief executive of the Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury, this week explained first-half profits that were its best since 2008....
...Her authors spanned her passions, from Mary Berry, the food writer, to Edmund de Waal, a potter whose The Hare with the Amber Eyes became an international sensation....
...“But that broken person can also be Mary Lennox,” Thorne adds, referring to the young hero of another upcoming project, a film version of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden....
...The designer’s imagination was fired by her own experiments as a potter, giving rise to clothes imbued with the shapely abstraction of mid-century ceramics....
...Mary Poppins, by PL Travers, for example, can be seen as pro-hippie and anti-capitalist. Edith Nesbit, author of The Railway Children, founded the Fabian Society....
...Forget the Harry Potter madness up the road at Alnwick Castle — all the magic is here....
...On sunny Saturdays, Bridport’s main street is humming with a lively market; local traders include potter Tim Hurn, showcasing his “chicken bricks” and T Snook, a hat shop from another time and place, selling...
...This small show sets the orientalist production of the 19th-century Florentine ceramics factory of Ulisse Cantagalli in context, and in light of his friendship with the English potter William De Morgan....
...I had assumed Americans are nuts for Downton Abbey for the same reasons they are charmed by The Crown and Harry Potter — because that is what the proverbial American tourist in the UK indulges in: castles...
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