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December 21, 2020By the end of this exhaustive and exhausting book I felt as though I had myself been married to Vivien Eliot and barely survived to tell the tale. Oxford scholar Ann Pasternak Slater...
November 23, 2020One day in 1757 the poet Christopher Smart went out to St James’s Park, started praying loudly and couldn’t stop. He was hauled off to St Luke’s Asylum, where a...
