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Monthly Archives: January 2023
Mr Collins
Someone told me, years ago, that a girl we both knew had compared me to Mr Collins in Pride and Prejudice. Of course I vehemently denied this, pointing out that I was nothing like the pompous fearful clergyman so well … Continue reading
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Tagged Mr Collins, Pride and Prejudice, Robert Burns, self-awareness
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A dying fall
Something bad happens to the Mountbatten-Windsor dynasty whenever one of its senior figures goes one-to-one in front of the cameras, or a book. The king, his ex-wife, both of his brothers and now his second son have all found themselves … Continue reading
Charles II
“May I add another evocative example (Letters, 5 November)? Maurice Bowra, the legendary warden of Wadham College, records in his Memories (1966) meeting an old Wadham man, Frederic Harrison, then aged 92. Harrison had gone to Oxford in 1849 and remembered the … Continue reading
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