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...Writing about sepulchres in 1809, Mary Shelley’s father, William Godwin, lamented that tombstones were being shuffled off like stubble, ready for next year’s crop....
...A talented playwright and sharp wit himself, William deserves a medal of his own for husbandly devotion. Charles I had made William a marquess two years before the couple married....
...presents an alternative version of Frankenstein’s origins by interleaving episodes from Lake Geneva with scenes from the time in 1812 when young Mary had shared a Dundee home with friends of her father William...
...If Herman Melville, Byron and Patrick O’Brian took inspiration from the Wager’s story, so did William Golding, whose Lord of the Flies Grann cites in his epigraph....
...“If you want guarantees,” Seymour wrote, “buy a toaster.”...
...First world war veteran William Garrett is a private detective in 1930s Birmingham, at the decidedly shabby end of the trade....
...The man who came to the surface was Philip Seymour Hoffman. He didn’t do anything in his work by half measures....
...I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhysby Miranda Seymour, William Collins £25 Seymour’s biography of the contrarian author of Wide Sargasso Sea is clear-eyed yet sympathetic....
...I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour, William Collins £25, 432 pages Annalena McAfee’s novel ‘Nightshade’ is published by Vintage Join our online book group on Facebook...
...As my colleague and friend, William Wallis, shows in this piece, republican sentiment is running neck-and-neck with monarchism among Britain’s under-30s....
...His copy was so clean that editors had only one job: “Weed out the joke that went too far”, remembered Corey Seymour from Rolling Stone....
...As the son of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, it is hard to miss the poignancy of Cooper Hoffman’s casting, though the movie never exploits it....
...“There is a desire to have an easy-to-use framework,” says Diane Seymour-Williams, a partner at London-based Acorn Capital Advisers....
...by self-taught artist Emma Wood. 26-29 Dean Street, London W1D 3LL Akoko A stroll from Regent’s Park into Marylebone will bring you to Akoko, a West African-influenced restaurant formerly helmed by William...
...“As some of the measures that have protected employment security and finances of those in unemployment come to an end, we are facing a cliff edge,” said Catherine Seymour from the Mental Health Foundation...
...Synecdoche’s Caden, an awkward, ailing theatre director played by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, could be a cousin of I’m Thinking’s Jake, played by Jesse Plemons....
...The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and their Year of Marvels, by Adam Nicolson, illustrated by Tom Hammick, William Collins, RRP£25, 390 pages Miranda Seymour is the author of ‘In Byron’s...
...William Bracewell’s boyish looks and fifth-Beatle mane make a convincing tearaway Romeo....
...If you want to go off the beaten track, I’d suggest one of British documentary maker Sophia Seymour’s walking tours, inspired by the Naples of author Elena Ferrante....
...Anybody could enjoy transient fame by turning out “well made shit” (William Douglas-Home was thrust forward as an example); but to change the world, she wrote, “you have to face the firing squad”....
...At 19 she married William King, later Lord Lovelace, and brought up three children (a little haphazardly) while riding, singing, playing the harp, ice-skating, learning algebra and astronomy, studying mesmerism...
...The last music I downloaded was a reggae playlist, Baila Reggaeton, that Felix Seymour [Anya Hindmarch’s son] found for me....
...There have been a number of notable biographies of Mary Shelley since Spark’s, including Emily Sunstein’s in 1989, which set out to rescue the work from stuffy Victorian judgments, and Miranda Seymour’s...
...These almost included Edward Seymour, Lord Protector of the boy-king Edward VI....
...Equally unconventional was William Oldroyd’s Lady Macbeth, one of the buzz titles of the festival....
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