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...You don’t need to be a Shelley scholar to enjoy Eekhout’s own gothic romance....
...The historian Thomas Carlyle’s forthright wife went further, calling the queen “mean-natured and half-distracted”....
...The process was overseen by Stephen Shelley, then Lloyds commercial division’s chief risk officer, who was also head of the business support unit charged with untangling the toxic HBOS debts, people familiar...
...“Some people are expecting pots,” says Wood, but she highlights this year’s contribution by deaf artist Nina Thomas. “She’s responding to the experience of former deaf workers in the ceramics industry....
...One minute he is examining the philosophy of the Stoics, the next pondering Goethe or Shelley....
...Their part-friendship, part-business relationship is just one of those that Daisy Hay — author of a previous biography of Disraeli and his wife, as well as a study of Byron and the Shelleys — tracks in her...
...“The debt ceiling increase has not been signed into law yet . . . but it seems like the market is dismissing any potential risk of default,” said Thomas Simons, a money market economist at Jefferies....
...The Ludlow-based production team, comprising Cox, documentary-maker Thomas Painter, and visual consultant Fabio Barry, a Stanford art history professor (and, in private life, Mr Pele Cox), have been pulling...
...For instance, some of my favourite bits of it were created by its greatest enemy, Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson, Victorian Lord of the Manor of Hampstead....
...While Thomas is setting up his camera, a violent storm erupts, and the men are separated....
...Paeans to its loveliness have flowed from the pens of Mary Shelley and Stendhal; it has inspired Liszt and Wagner; Verdi wrote La traviata on its shores....
...The See-Through House is part of a lineage of central European history filtered through its buildings — Simon Mawer’s The Glass Room and Thomas Harding’s A House by the Lake come to mind....
...Maybe [they were] utopian, angry, excessive, like Percy Bysshe Shelley and everyone has been since we became aware of young people coming out with radical ideas....
...Two plaques record that this was the site where Thomas Lord established his original cricket ground in 1787, the same year as the Marylebone Cricket Club was formed....
...WB Yeats takes us with him to the “Lake Isle of Innisfree”, a place of childhood memories which revisited him as he walked through London; Shelley lets us explore undiscovered lands in the company of his...
...Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan independently invented usable lightbulbs in the late 1870s. In 1881, Edison built electricity-generating stations at Pearl Street in Manhattan and Holborn in London....
...New technologies and their effects on how we live have long proved an inspiration for writers: whether it was Thomas Hardy and the industrial revolution, or Mary Shelley and electricity....
...It is already been talked about as a book on a par with Thomas Piketty’s Capital in terms of how it might change the debate....
...In their last years together they translated Spinoza, read Thomas Paine and Thomas Hobbes, never ceasing to write and think together, despite domestic tragedy....
...The play itself clearly builds on earlier models, including Shelley’s Frankenstein, Churchill’s A Number, Ayckbourn’s Henceforward and Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?...
...Before the crash, David Shelley, chief executive of Hachette UK, tells me, it had been legal thrillers that had been doing particularly well; afterwards it was the escape into fantasy....
...She has written about Shelley and Dickens and Thomas Hardy; about Austen and Katherine Mansfield and Dora Jordan, actress and mistress of the Duke of Clarence, later King William IV....
...In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein, by Fiona Sampson, Profile, RRP£18.99/Pegasus, RRP$28.95 (June) A biography by a prizewinning poet, published for the novel’s bicentenary....
...Williams’s father, confronted by the latest episode of Heathcote’s bohemianism, would sternly recite Dylan Thomas: “I see the boys of summer in their ruin.”...
...In the realm of culture, the resting places of British writers are spread across the Mediterranean; Smollet in Leghorn (Livorno), Keats and Shelley in Rome, Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Florence are well...
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