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...Additional reporting by Samuel Agini and Oliver Barnes...
...Others are oppressed by the expectations of the men who share their homes, such as Hester Lynch Piozzi, in whose Streatham house Samuel Johnson stayed in times of personal crisis....
...Nobody has really changed the theatre since Samuel Beckett with Waiting for Godot and John Osborne with Look Back in Anger. Nobody else in my lifetime has changed the art form in which we work....
...At the centre of The Club was the literary giant Samuel Johnson, and the man who immortalised his words of wisdom: Johnson’s biographer, the prolific diarist, drunkard and philanderer James Boswell....
...My first job was in H Samuel the jeweller and I was there about three years. I pierced a lot of ears and changed a lot of Swatch batteries. Who was or still is your mentor?...
...Hester’s loneliness grows and amplifies; so does the film’s quietly assured expressionism....
...He quotes RBS boss Stephen Hester from a recent conference call as saying: “Preference shares are just a disguised form of leverage…this is a penny that has still got to drop fully.”...
...The Life of Samuel Johnson By James Boswell Penguin £18.99, 1,246 pages FT Bookshop price: £15.19 Samuel Johnson: A Biography By Peter Martin Weidenfeld & Nicolson £25, 522 pages FT Bookshop price: £20...
...He gave an elegantly bound volume of Demosthenes to his friend Hester Thrale because it was “too fine for a scholar’s talons”....
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