Reviews

‘a delightful amateur sleuth novel with a well balanced mix of domestic and academic life and a strong sense of place.’ [Stage Fright]

- EUROCRIME.CO.UK

One of my heroes

Posted on Oct 22, 2014 in National Portrait Gallery, Uncategorized, William Morris, William Morris Society | 2 Comments

  Last week I went to the opening of Anarchy and Beauty: William Morris and his Legacy 1860-1960 at the National Portrait Gallery. I haven’t been to an opening in quite a while – I’m not really part of that world anymore – and it was fun. But more than that: it reminded me of […]

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Penelope Fitzgerald

Posted on Dec 11, 2013 in Hermione Lee, Penelope Fitzgerald, William Morris Society | 6 Comments

I am well into Hermione Lee’s biography of Penelope Fitzgerald and I am riveted. I’ll be blogging about it when I have finished it. It is particularly fascinating to read a biography when the subject is someone you’ve known.I first met Penelope when I was curator at the William Morris Society at Kelmscott House in […]

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