Who cannot feel a twinge of sympathy today for Marion Crawford, the royal governess banished from an implacable court to virtual exile? When she died a lonely widow of 78, neither the Queen, the Queen ...
The early years of Elizabeth II’s reign were marked by a flurry of memoirs written by members and ex-members of the royal household, usually with help from ghostwriters. The first into this field of ...
To “retire from all the pleasures of life, of rational intercourse, equal society, peace and hope, to penance and mortification for ever” is how Jane Austen described it. Mary Wollstonecraft, upon ...
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