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My finest, ferocious Caravaggio style"-that was his own phrase for his later manner, and that was the style I was aiming at, an interplay of light and shadow that would rivet the attention and, ultimately, draw the eye to darkness.At the beginning of Doris Langley Moore's deliriously entertaining final novel, bookseller and author Quentin Williams has just received the royalties (just over £4) from his two published biographies. In his resulti...

There are some embroidered waistcoats . . . They are very old. A museum might be glad of them. . . . There are some pictures too, " Mrs. Hovenden brought out with a fresh effort, "oil paintings that were in the rector's family."The kindness of Dr George Sandilands towards an elderly patient, and her insistence on repaying him with the detritus of her attic, sets in motion a comedy of errors that rocks the art world. Dr Sandilands finally accep...

I don't mind being alone at all. I was often here alone in the blitz, and I was so frightened of the bombs that I quite stopped being frightened of burglars."World War II has ended, residents are flooding back to London, and the housing shortage creates strange bedfellows. Elinor MacFarren-middle-aged spinster, botanical writer, and collector of prints and objets d'art-decides to rent part of her house to Antonia Bankes, whose American husband...

Fanny Burney would not approve of some of my chapters, but it was my affection for the novels of her school, in which the heroine goes through all kinds of distresses but emerges in a sweeping triumph at the end, that made me long to try my hand at the same theme-treating it, however, in our down-to-earth twentieth-century way.This brilliant homage to the 19th century novel begins with two young women-Lucy, sturdy and unflappable, and Daisy, c...

Excerpt from The Late Lord Byron: Posthumous DramasBut the very magnitude of Byron's renown was a cause of extra ordinary distortions of the evidence. To inflate an acquaintanceship into an intimacy, to suggest that three or four meetings were thirty or forty meetings, to tint the picture with the colours the reading public would find congenial - how could these temptations be resisted when there was such a market for 'inside stories' that it ...

Excerpt from The Late Lord Byron: Posthumous Dramas But the very magnitude of Byron's renown was a cause of extra ordinary distortions of the evidence. To inflate an acquaintanceship into an intimacy, to suggest that three or four meetings were thirty or forty meetings, to tint the picture with the colours the reading public would find congenial - how could these temptations be resisted when there was such a market for 'inside stories' that i...

The best biography of Lord Byron ever written, " according to Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin, is now back in print after decades.Of the hundreds of books on Byron and his work, not one has been devoted to the immediate aftermath of his life, and yet it is these first twenty posthumous years that yield the most unexpected and exciting discoveries about the character of the poet and the behavior of those who once surrounded him-wife, sister, friends...