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A confusion of bright feathers…
‘A confusion of bright feathers like a Sitwell poem lay on the sill...’ In Molly Keane’s 1935 novel Full House , the feathers, which are...
Jan 10, 2025


The Rise of a Matriarch
A few blogs ago I wrote about Annie Garthwaite’s 2021 novel, Cecily, which tells the first half of the story of Cecily Neville, Duchess...
Dec 20, 2024


The Power of Letters…
During the First World War, Daisy Thomson Grigg wrote a lot of letters to her brother in the army. This was not unusual in what was...
Dec 1, 2024
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